Senior Data Engineering Manager
Job Description
Senior Data Engineering Manager - Lloyds Banking Group
London (hybrid working pattern, 2 days per week in office & rest from home)
Salary & Benefits: £81-115k base salary, depending on location and experience.
Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers. Our products touch the lives of millions, so we have a huge responsibility to help Britain Prosper. With data at the heart of our group strategy, now is the perfect time to join our Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) and be part of our transformation into a cloud-enabled, data-driven organisation!
CDAO brings together Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Management. Helping to build data solutions across all areas of the business such as; customer segmentation, pricing, customer experience, credit decisioning, commercial performance and fraud detection.
As a Senior Data Engineering Manager
Being part of the engineering leadership team, you’ll help to develop and champion engineering principles, tooling and frameworks across our 80+ data engineers.
You’ll guide engineers to solve problems revolving around data and help them to craft solutions. A key focus of this role will be to support our adoption of cloud.
You'll work closely with our engineers to help shape, design, and build data pipelines and analytics solutions across a range of platforms.
You’ll champion the development and adoption of tools and frameworks which simplify complexities and ensure our solutions are of the highest quality.
A large part of this role will be line management focused, and you will have up to 15 people reporting into you, with responsibility for their learning and development, plus day-to-day task management.
You’ll get the opportunity to coach and support the team across several technical areas, which include Python and SQL, knowledge of Big Data solutions and traditional data warehousing techniques.
You’ll get the chance to help develop the engineering community by leading initiatives. Other important part of the role includes resource management, budget management and recruitment.
What we’re looking for
• Management of multiple teams, with the ability to work across teams, facilitating, and pushing projects forward, upholding standards.
• Experience of delivering data engineering pipelines to support adoption of new capabilities.
• A breadth of knowledge of potential solutions utilising Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or BI (You’ll need a grounding in more than one area in order to provide technical leadership to our Chapter)
• Experience of working in the cloud both from a design and build point of view (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Experience working with technical and non-technical audiences - asking intelligent questions and able to make complex data analysis simple.
• Depth of knowledge around standard data management practices, and for what can be achieved using data and an appreciation of what benefits can be derived from data.
Additional Package:
Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash allowance, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We are very flexible employers and don’t stick to the normal 9-5, within reason you can work hours to suit your lifestyle.
We’re very family friendly as a company and have a great collection of smart, collaborative and diverse teams for you to join.
Together we make it possible!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'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.
We are proud supporters of Women in Data®. Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.