Head of Data Engineering

LLoyds Banking Group

JOB TITLE: Head of Data Engineering – PEC

SALARY: £130,000 – £195,000

LOCATION(S): London or Bristol

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London or Bristol Office

About this opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Data Engineering leader to work within the Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams. As a head of data 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.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference:

• Lead the data engineering teams in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining high-quality, high-availability and scalable data pipelines and data products to provide personalised experiences for our twenty-six million customers and users.
• Establish and enforce best practices, standards, and methodologies for data engineering, ensuring alignment with our business goals, customer needs, and industry trends.
• Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, data scientists, AI engineers, and other stakeholders to define and prioritise the data engineering roadmap, scope, and deliverables.
• Lead implementation of a data strategy aligned to the group’s data strategy.
• Lead teams to define and deliver consumption patterns, data linage and data models and contracts.
• Lead teams to create automation tools for data reconciliation and curation.
• Drive the culture of delivering highly secured and high-quality data products.
• Take the ownership and accountability of delivery, operations, risk management and TCO.
• Lead teams in adopting best engineering practices like Test Driven Development, code reviews, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery for data pipelines.
• Hire, train, coach, and evaluate the performance of the software engineering team, developing their skills and career growth.
• Being a team player who can build relationships and collaborate productively with other teams across a variety of domains.
• Champion culture of inclusivity and diversity

About us

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

Specifically, we are looking for people who have .

We understand no one can be an expert in every aspect of Data Engineering. However, if you have coding or scripting knowledge / experience with a data engineering background, we would like to hear from you.

• Proven experience in software engineering, with experience in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on proven experience of delivering systems design, software development, testing and operational stability.
• Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD
• Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go).
• Working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakes (Teradata DW, BigQuery)
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases to build data solutions, such as SQL Server/Oracle/Teradata, experience with relational and dimensional data structures.
• Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop)
• Practical experience of Cloud native solutions, specially GCP
• Advanced knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience working with Kafka technologies.
• Computer science fundamentals: a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts.
• Good understating of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning
• Experience of hiring and recognising and developing talents

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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

If you are excited by the thought of becoming part of our Data Engineering team, get in touch. We would love to hear from you.

Join our journey.