Principal Data Engineer

End Date

Sunday 12 January 2025

Salary Range

£100,657 - £183,551

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team!

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Principal Data Engineer

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office.

About this opportunity

Join our Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform as a Principal Data Engineer. You'll work within multi-functional product engineering teams to deliver top-quality data capabilities, demonstrating your engineering expertise and cloud opportunities.

In this role, you'll lead the design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, resilient, low-latency systems. You'll collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders to define and implement the data engineering roadmap. You'll drive technical strategy and best practices, deliver technical solutions for multiple entities within the group, and foster a culture of secure, high-quality data pipelines. Additionally, you'll automate processes to eliminate recurring issues and mentor and coach engineering teams.

We are committed to transforming our Group and shaping finance for good, investing in technologies, workplaces, and colleagues. If you have coding or scripting experience with a data engineering background, we want to hear from you!

Why Lloyds Banking Group.

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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:

• Extensive industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record

• Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD.

• Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go).

• Strong working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakes

• Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop)

• Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.

• Strong experience working with Kafka technologies

• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts.

• Good understating of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Certification in GCP “Cloud Architect”, “Cloud Developer”, “Professional Data Engineer”

• Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK)

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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.