Senior Data Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is looking for a Data Engineer to enhance digital customer experiences. You will leverage your data engineering skills to develop innovative solutions using machine learning, while working in a hybrid model in Bristol. The role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

30 days' holiday

Discounted shopping benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Extensive data engineering experience and implementing data management systems.
• Strong data literacy, with hands-on analytics and development skills.
• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, and programming concepts in Python.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business teams to identify new machine learning use cases.
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality data products.
• Promote high-quality data engineering practices.

Skills

Data engineering experience

Data literacy

Data governance knowledge

Communication skills

Experience with GCP

Proficiency in Kafka

Understanding of DevOps practices

Tools

Dataflow

DBT

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

Overview

End Date

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

What you’ll need to know

JOB Description Summary

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Two days per week (or 40% of your time) at our Bristol office. On-call Required

Job Description

You will join the Consumer Servicing & Engagement (CS&E) Platform, a team focused on delivering a unified digital servicing experience for personal customers on the device of their choice. We aim to provide the best digital customer experience by increasing engagement and enabling seamless self-service.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business teams to identify and “prove” new use cases and the value of Machine Learning and AI embedding the data engineering concepts.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-quality data products using clean, maintainable, and efficient solution designs aligned with standard methodologies.
• Work with other data & ML engineers and technical SMEs to identify, develop and implement new solutions that deliver customer and business value.
• Promote high quality Data engineering practices alongside maintaining an effective control environment, sharing knowledge with others and offering technical leadership or support as needed.
• Keep up-to-date with emerging developments in data & AI, engineering and ML ops fields, and proactively share findings with the team.

What you’ll need

• Extensive data engineering experience and implementing data management systems.
• Strong data literacy, with hands-on analytics and development skills.
• Solid knowledge of data governance, architecture, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to extract and effectively communicate key points from complex code bases to support production builds.
• Experience with internal libraries such as GCP shared utilities, and building robust pipeline components using Dataflow, DBT jobs.
• Proficiency in Kafka, GCP (GKE, Cloud tools), BigQuery, and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with automation tools and observability frameworks.
• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts in Python.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Sound understanding of and/or enthusiasm for retail banking and an appreciation of the opportunities that ML and gen AI provides with good understanding of LLM, AI concepts.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.