Data Engineer

Salary: £46,000pa to £56,000pa plus benefits.

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, and the role will require the successful candidate to be spending at least two days per week, or a minimum of 40% of their time in the Bristol hub.

Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we are redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture and our mindset are changing to craft a true agile, product-focused, engineering-led organisation.

Job Profile Summary 

Design and Engineering are looking for Engineers in multiple teams to meet our ongoing need to provide Data services to our wider Finance Colleagues within Lloyds Banking Group. In an evolving data landscape we provide support for new and existing processes and applications at all levels of data manipulation, automation and control. Our mission is to “Empower through trusted data” and as an Engineering department we at the forefront of delivering on that promise. 

Background 

We’re the UK’s biggest digital bank, with over 18 million online customers. But there’s still so much more we want to achieve. Data represents a critical part of our business and our vision for the future. We’re investing more than £3bn into our people, technology and data to ensure we can make a real, positive impact to millions of customers, businesses and communities, today and tomorrow. 

Group Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and data is a key enabler in satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Finance Data & Analytics Office (FDAO) is a Centre of Excellence of Data encompassing activities across Data Engineering, Data Management & Culture, Data Science and Reporting with a purpose to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our ethos, and our capability to craft a truly data-led organisation which is at the heart of the Finance Strategy. 

Passionate about the power to be sparked when combining data and analytics, with evolving technology? Want to join a team that role models diversity, collaboration, a curious approach, and will be bold as we transform data across Finance? If the answer to these questions is yes, then read on. 

The role/team 

The Design and Engineering Department within FDAO provide application and database support and development for the wider Finance Community. As an Engineer you will work with our stakeholders, designers and technical SMEs developing and supporting high quality data manipulation processes and applications ensuring we provide the right data, to the right people, in the right way across the Lloyds Finance Community. 

Our remit stretches from the small, single user, application up to Mid Tier Database support and increasingly beyond as we embrace future ways of working. 

And you’ll help make FDAO a fantastic place to work – supporting our agenda on inclusion, growth and having fun. There’ll be lots of opportunities for you to get involved, be seen and to make a real difference. 

And through all of this, the underpinning thread is your role in Helping Britain Prosper. 

A typical day in this role would include… What your key accountabilities will be 

You'll be responsible for the delivery of finance applications and automated data solutions for strategic and BAU change using a variety of technical and analytical skills working alongside our Subject Matter Experts. In addition, you'll analyse data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions.  

You'll collaborate with internal teams in Design and Engineering to produce software design and architecture and will contribute to the control and monitoring of a range of services and initiatives. You'll develop, test and implement code to departmental standards and author documentation throughout the software development process. Additionally you'll proactively develop and maintain customer relationships to meet current and future business needs, working closely with business colleagues to understand and shape requirements and solutions. 

About you

You'll have demonstrable knowledge and experience in one of the following areas and will be keen to cross-skill in others: 

• SQL – especially T-SQL, Teradata or GCP Big Query 
• SQL Server (T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS) or other RDBMS 
• Blue Prism or similar Robotics applications 
• NET desktop or web development in C# 
• Microsoft Power Application development. 

It would also be great if you had experience of:  

• UI design and build in WPF 
• Understanding of Object Orientated principles of design and build. 
• Python 
• Scripting (Powershell, bash etc) 
• GitHub 
• JIRA/Confluence 
• VBA 
• Financial Services 

The role would suit an existing Engineer or Data Analyst looking to step into a more development focused role who has the ability to collaborate or work on own initiative. You'll be able to react at pace, working with our operations team to investigate and resolve live incidents and issues. You'll also be keen to develop your own skills to meet the future and rapidly evolving technological landscape.

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.

As a function we're committed to the principles of Flexible Working and want to find the right person for the job. We'll welcome applications from candidates interested in working the role as a job share or applying for the role on reduced hours.

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
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you will be empowered to make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We are focused on creating a values-led culture and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.

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.