Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Data Engineer
SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100 per annum
LOCATION: Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Data Engineers at Lloyds Banking Group operate at team level, assisting in the design, contributing to development and maintenance of software applications. They work across the full development lifecycle from design through development to maintenance. 

About us 
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers.  The General Insurance platform is improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their insurance products including home, motor, pet and health. 
 
About this opportunity
As a Data Engineer on the Feature Team within the General Insurance (GI) platform, you’ll be passionate about technology, both current and future trends, and will look for opportunities to bring these into the platform, whilst being a role model for your team and colleagues around you. The Feature Team handle a high volume of migration from legacy databases as well as current databases to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Here, you’ll use your skills in SaS type coding, Python, and SQL. Success in this role can lead to growth opportunities within our Data Engineering community.  
 
Here's how you'll make a difference… 
•    Contribute to the strategic direction for engineering delivery within our teams. 
•    Lead a culture of continual improvement. 
•    Driving an ‘automation first’ approach across the teams.
•    Act as a mentor, coach, and role model to GI platform colleagues, implementing a learning culture and a focus on personal and team development. 
•    Work collaboratively with other colleagues and teams to achieve shared success. 
 

What you’ll do 
You’ll feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through: 
•    Contributing to feature development within teams across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over-engineering. 
•    Engineering data products that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt and adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release. 
•    Participating in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.   
•    Enabling the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, finding opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices.  
•    Partnering with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety.  
•    Promoting active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps.  
•    Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by expanding your owns skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group 
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need: 
To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following: 
•    Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
•    Have effective collaboration and communication skills, able to work and influence across functional boundaries. 
•    A passion for learning, coaching, developing & motivating colleagues. 
•    Exposure to engineering delivery.  
•    Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitment. 
•    Experience with data tools, systems and techniques to collect, store, validate, extract, transform, and load data. 
•    Understanding of value of data in decision making and ability to independently perform semi-advance analysis to put data into context. 
•    Experience with assurance of data accuracy and consistency. 
•    Experience with Database Management including schema, performance and data integrity. 
•    Experience with data visualisation tools. 
•    Strong understanding of data modelling concepts and techniques for structured and unstructured data. 

And any experience of these would be really useful: 
•    Experience with Azure and Kafka 
•    Financial Services industry experience

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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.