Senior Analytics Engineer - Build Scalable Data Platforms

Lloyds Bank plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 84,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer in London to lead production-grade ELT pipelines using dbt and BigQuery. You will model complex datasets across payments, credit and growth, and drive best practices in data modelling, testing, CI/CD and performance optimisation.

You will mentor other analytics engineers and collaborate with Data Engineering, BI Engineering and business stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, reliable and cost-efficient in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in analytics engineering, data engineering or a related discipline.
• Deep hands-on expertise using dbt as a primary transformation tool.
• Expert-level SQL skills and experience modelling large-scale datasets in a cloud data warehouse.
• Strong experience with BigQuery, including incremental models, partitioning and cost optimisation.
• Experience designing and owning complex data models from requirements through to production.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain engineering standards, testing strategies and CI/CD practices.
• Experience implementing data quality controls, monitoring and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles including Git, version control and modular development.
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting the development of other analytics engineers.
• Knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow or Composer.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of production-grade ELT pipelines using dbt and BigQuery.
• Own the modelling of complex datasets across payments, credit and growth.
• Drive best practices in data modelling, testing, CI/CD and performance optimisation.
• Mentor other analytics engineers and shape data function standards.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, BI Engineering and business stakeholders.

Skills

dbt

SQL

BigQuery

Cloud data warehouse

Data modelling

CI/CD

GCP

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Tools

dbt

BigQuery

SQL

Airflow/Composer

GCP

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer in London to lead production-grade ELT pipelines using dbt and BigQuery. You will model complex datasets across payments, credit and growth, and drive best practices in data modelling, testing, CI/CD and performance optimisation.

You will mentor other analytics engineers and collaborate with Data Engineering, BI Engineering and business stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, reliable and cost-efficient in a hybrid work environment.