Senior Data Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc
Bristol
1 week ago
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End DateTuesday 17 March 2026Salary Range£72,702 - £80,780Flexible Working OptionsHybrid Working, Job ShareJob Description Summary.Job Description****JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer – Personalised Experiences & Communications PlatformSALARY: £70,929 - £80,000LOCATION(S): BristolHOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per weekWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.About this opportunity…A great opportunity has arisen for a Senior Data Engineer to work within the Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams. As a Senior Data Engineer your responsibilities will be delivering the highest quality data capability, drawing upon your engineering expertise, whilst being open minded to the opportunities the cloud provides.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. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…What you’ll be doing… Building reusable data pipelines at scale, work with structured and unstructured data, and feature engineering for machine learning or curate data to provide real time contextualise insights to power our customers journeys. Using industry leading toolsets, as well as evaluating exciting new technologies to design and build scalable real time data applications. Spanning the full data lifecycle and experience using mix of modern and traditional data platforms (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, GCP, Azure, Teradata, SQL server) you’ll get to work building capabilities with horizon-expanding exposure to a host of wider technologies and careers in data. Helping in adopting best engineering practices like Test Driven Development, code reviews, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery etc for data pipelines.* Mentoring other engineers to deliver high quality and data led solutions for our Bank’s customersWhat you’ll need…Coding: Coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, Java, Scala or Go and SQL).Databases & frameworks: 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)* Strong experience working with Kafka technologiesContainerisation:** Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc)Cloud:* Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.* Good understating of cloud storage, networking and resource provisioningIt would be great if you also had…* Certification in GCP “Professional Data Engineer”* Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK)* Proficiency across the data lifecycleAbout 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. 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.* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesJoin 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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.
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