Streaming Ingestion Engineer

End Date

Friday 18 October 2024

Salary Range

£68,202 - £102,303

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Streaming Ingestion Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION: Manchester

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.

Our team

We're the Data Movement Lab building and managing the future centralised nervous system, using the power of our existing batch technologies centred on IBM’s Infosphere DataStage stack, alongside our emerging cloud strategy and streaming analytics capability to get closer to our customers.

This will be the backbone of our Event data processing hub. Our goal is to democratise Lloyds Bank’s dataset. We’re currently supporting 1,000s of processes across the Bank, acting as the Enterprise Data Integration function within the Bank.

Core Purpose of the role

Our team is looking for a hardworking and adaptable Lead Engineer with depth of knowledge in the Data Domain. A technical leader with data engineering expertise, a growth mind-set and a dedication to technical leadership. As an engineering lead for the Lab, you'll lead a large and diverse agile engineering teams, building pipelines patterns and frameworks that enable data to be efficiently and effectively processed at scale. You'll work alongside the Product Owner in the development of technical roadmaps supporting the strategy of the Products and Services, ensuring that engineers’ capabilities are aligned to the plans.

What you’ll be involved in

• Provide direction for a multi-disciplinary team by blending both deep domain and technical expertise to build, deploy and maintain capabilities and services enabling earlier value release for our customers.

• Within the framing of a reference architecture and strategy, set the technical direction for the team, ensuring software is built consistently using relevant patterns and these patterns and practices are propagated across the wider community.

• Ensure all Engineering work is carried out in line with the Bank standards and that teams are aware of, make decisions within and assist in the implementation and operation of the security, cyber, risk and control management framework.

• Hire and grow engineering talent as well as coaching and mentoring colleagues to enable them to reach their full potential.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strength in collaboration as Data & Machine Learning Platform requires its Labs and Programmes to collaborate in building end-to-end Data products and services across LBG

• Able to inspire and encourage the best from your team, with a passion for coaching and mentoring of less experienced software engineers.

• Expertise in proto-typing, building, deploying, and maintaining large scale data solutions.

• Extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages in a complex technology environment

• Technical know-how of ETL Tooling and Streaming and how they fit with cloud technologies experience and delivering data engineering solutions.

• Experience in end-to-end delivery of software products using Agile and DevOps, with capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode methodologies, demonstrating engineering excellence and a passion for automation

• Additionally, data domain technology experience including:

• Database technology such as Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, DB2 and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and HBase

• Expertise in Container & Virtualization/Hypervisor technologies such as K8,firecracker/gVisor/ cloud—hypervisor/kata-containers

• Expertise in Cloud Native technologies including networking & security is a plus

• Experience with Linux kernel technologies such as kernel modules, cgroups/namespaces, eBPF, XDP, etc

• Excellent experience in at least one programming language: Java, Scala, Python, GO

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

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

• 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.