Engineering Lead – Data Content Services Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

Bristol or London based: Hybrid working.

Benefits: base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We’re a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/ finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 20 million active online customers across our three main brands – including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We’re building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

Where will this role sit?

Data Content Services (DCS) Lab is responsible for organising the bank’s data. We do this by ingesting data from many source systems, joining the data, organising, and cataloguing it so that the data can be discovered, understood, trusted, and re-used for a multitude of business purposes.

About the role

As Engineering Lead of the lab, you’ll lead a large and diverse engineering team of 150+ colleagues who are building the pipelines, patterns and frameworks that enable data to be efficiently and effectively processed at scale.

Technologies in use within the Lab are Hadoop and native Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with increasing focus for delivering the Group’s data and analytics products and services on GCP. It’s a great time to join the team as we build momentum on our public cloud journey!

What you’ll do

• Work hand-in-hand with your Product Owner counterpart in a ‘two-in-a-box’ model to jointly lead the Lab team providing a great value proposition to your stakeholders from across the company.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team who build, deploy and maintain big data applications that deliver high-quality data, and end-to-end metadata management solutions

• Set the strategic direction and roadmap for the Lab, ensuring software is built consistently using relevant patterns and these patterns and practices are propagated across the wider community

• Ensure all Engineering work in the Lab 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

• Be part of the broader DML engineering leadership team driving and supporting initiatives outside the core Lab and Platform as part of the leadership and engineering community

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

About You

• Strength in collaboration as DML Platform requires its several Labs and Programmes to team with excellence daily and our Platform provides products and services across LBG so collaboration needs to be a key part of your DNA

• An experienced technical leader, able to inspire and encourage the best from their teams

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

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

• Experience in end-to-end delivery of software products using Agile and DevOps methodologies, demonstrating engineering excellence and a passion for automation

• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary, mixed, geographically distributed teams across the project lifecycle

What you I get in return?

We’re dedicated to giving opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential.

As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcomed and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We’re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Together we make it possible!