Data Engineer

Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester or Edinburgh: Hybrid working arrangements - 2 days per week in the office and the rest from home

Salary & Benefits: £45,054 to £55,066 base salary, depending on experience.

Additional Package: Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), flexible benefits system, private medical insurance, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Flexibility Works: We’re extremely flexible employers, offering a range of options to suit your lifestyle including flexible hours, flex-summer holidays, flex-bank holidays, great parental support and a real focus on finding work-life balance.

About us;

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

We're a friendly group of people with a huge passion for all things Data and Artificial Intelligence. We come from a variety of backgrounds and are united by the vision of the untapped potential of human and machine intelligence.

Data & Machine Learning (DML) Platform, building and managing the future centralised nervous system for the Bank. We want to make banking safer, faster, and more effective. We're realising a future where machine intelligence takes away repetitive manual effort and instead provides insight and direction to our colleagues - empowering them to do more with less effort.

We’re in the midst of an exciting journey to modernise our capability onto Cloud technologies.

What will you focus on in this role?
You’ll work within a team of Data Platform Engineers reporting into a Lead Platform Engineer and support a range of activities centred around the building of data pipelines and associated configuration.

You’ll use SQL to work with our existing data warehouses / data lakes and support the transition to Google Cloud Platform, including supporting the Extract Transform & Load activities.  You’ll also support setting up security & access management, plus contribute towards the design activities.

• You’ll use your knowledge of data platform engineering to build and improve the reliability of our current data platforms.
• You'll mature and automate our tooling, making us more responsive.
• You'll support changing how we work by discovering new tools, methods, and approaches.

It's ok if one or two of these are things you're not used to. We want people who want to learn, grow and teach us something in the process.

So what experience & skills do I need to apply?
Lloyds Banking Group is made up of people from a range of roles and industry backgrounds, for this particular role we’ll be looking for the following within your application;

Career background as a data engineer or related role within the field of data.  We find this level of role often suits people with up to 5 years’ experience. Data pipeline development experience within large data warehouses Cloud technology exposure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but any will be considered.  SQL coding skills (medium skill level) Desirable:  Python or C# coding experience for configuration in cloud (low to medium skill level)

Training, support & development can be given for some of these elements.

What you'd get in return;

We work hybrid working patterns (2 days per week in the office). We believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you...

We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process.

We’re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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. 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. 

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. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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