Data Engineering Manager

Description

JOB TITLE:Data Engineering Manager

SALARY:£70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN:Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity
As a Data Engineer within the 'General Insurance' (GI) platform, you’ll be responsible for leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team of Data Engineers, taking accountability for all delivery and operational activities. 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.

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. Lead ground-breaking initiatives across the platform or broader programme.

About us

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.

What you’ll need

Validated expertise in delivering and supporting high-availability, high-performance systems. Coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, Java, Scala or Go and SQL) Strong experience working with Kafka technologies Working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big-data technologies and data lakes Experience working with relational and non-relational databases to build data solutions, such as SQL Server/Oracle, experience with relational and dimensional data structures Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop) Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform Experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools/frameworks Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc) Experience with GCP, AWS or Azure

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?Join our 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.

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.