Senior Data Engineer - Customer Data Services - CIO Enabling

Lloyds Bank plc; Bristol; On-site; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Bank plc in Bristol is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer (CDS) to build and optimise data pipelines and architectures across the organisation. The role focuses on Informatica, IBM product manager and Google Cloud Platform, leveraging BigQuery, DBT, Kafka, SQL and analytics tools.

The team follows agile practices with a strong emphasis on automation, testing, and governance. Hybrid working with 2 days in the Bristol office supports collaboration and delivery of data solutions that drive

Qualifications

• Data engineering capabilities across data management and pipelines.
• Familiarity with MDM, reference data and product data management.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and data engineering services.
• Proficiency with BigQuery, SQL and data warehouse technologies.
• Experience with BI tools (Tableau/Power BI/Looker).
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD and containerisation.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise data pipelines and architectures.
• Work within Informatica, IBM product manager and GCP ecosystems.
• Automate tests and deployments; follow agile governance.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable data solutions.
• Develop skills in data engineering and agile practices.

Skills

Data Engineering

Data Management

Data Literacy

MDM & Reference Data

Cloud Platforms

SQL & BigQuery

Data Modelling

Data Visualization

DevOps (CI/CD)

Certifications

Tools

BigQuery

DBT

Kafka

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

End Date Tuesday 25 August 2026

Salary Range £72,702 - £80,780

We support flexible working –

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer (CDS)

Salary: £72,702 – £80,780

Location(s): Bristol

Hours: Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office sites.

Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity This role sits within our Customer Data Services Platform, and we're the team that looks after the reference data, product data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality whilst ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience based on performance, resilience, and integrity. The systems we support, underpin almost everything we do as Lloyds Banking Group. We maintain these systems with the highest standard and operate them 24/7 using SRE principles.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for building and optimising data pipelines and architectures that enable data driven insights across the organisation. You'll work primarily within Informatica, IBM product manager and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, leveraging tools such as Big Query, DBT (Data Build Tool), Apache Kafka, and SQL and many more including legacy technologies. We expect a high degree of automation for tests and deployments. We follow LBG's agile practices and governance processes. Expertise in MDM (Master Data Management), reference data management, and GCP. Participate in design/implementation reviews and team ceremonies. Continuously look for reuse and opportunities to automate repetitive tasks. Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers. Invest to develop technical and agile skills.

What we’re looking for?

• Data Engineering: Implementing data management processes and systems
• Data Literacy: Designing, developing, and applying data and analytics experience
• Data Modelling and Design: Practice of visually representing the design of information systems
• Experienced in working with MDM, reference data, and product data management
• Any experience of these would be great
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud, Azure or AWS, and their underlying data engineering services.
• Experience with SQL and data warehouse technology such as BigQuery.
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Relevant certifications in data engineering, cloud platforms, or related areas.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

Diversity and Inclusion

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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

Background Checks

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along 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.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

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.