Senior Data Engineer (CDS)

Lloyds Banking Group
Bristol
19 hours ago
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JOB TITLE: 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 and 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 BigQuery, 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

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.


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

And 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.


This is a place for you

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

Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.


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