Lead Data Engineer - Secure AI & Data Platforms

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts on shopping

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape the lab's data engineering capability and deliver production-grade data foundations for AI/analytics. You will own data pipelines and embed secure-by-design principles across a complex enterprise environment.

This senior role combines technical leadership with mentorship, defining the strategy and roadmap while partnering with Security, Cloud, Architecture and Product teams. Hybrid work model with multiple UK office sites.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers in a senior or lead capacity.
• Strong experience designing, building and operating scalable data platforms and pipelines in complex environments.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP or similar enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of data modelling, data quality, metadata, lineage and governance principles.
• Ability to make pragmatic, risk-aware technical decisions balancing resilience, pace and long-term maintainability.
• Experience embedding engineering best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, observability and version control.
• Strong collaboration skills, working across engineering, security, data science and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the data engineering strategy and roadmap for the lab.
• Own scalable data pipelines and secure-by-design data foundations for AI and analytics.
• Mentor engineers and build a high-performing engineering culture across teams.
• Collaborate with Security, Cloud, Architecture and Product teams to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Lead data engineering

Data platforms design

Cloud experience

Mentoring engineers

Security-conscious design

Observability

Tools

CI/CD

Version control

Data pipelines orchestration

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape the lab's data engineering capability and deliver production-grade data foundations for AI/analytics. You will own data pipelines and embed secure-by-design principles across a complex enterprise environment.

This senior role combines technical leadership with mentorship, defining the strategy and roadmap while partnering with Security, Cloud, Architecture and Product teams. Hybrid work model with multiple UK office sites.