Senior Software Engineer (Data)

Job description
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Data)

SALARY: £70,929 – £78,810

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

As the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial bank we realise that our data is a significant business differentiator and plays a pivotal role in achieving our sustainable growth ambitions.

This role is in Transaction Classification Services lab, where we’re on a mission to provide a world class transaction data enrichment capability to power commercialisation. We're delivering one of the UKs richest transaction datasets, revolutionising financial insights and market intelligence for LBG and our customers. It's a critical role to us, as you'll drive the evolution of data analytics solutions and AI capabilities, by developing and delivering solutions that are aligned with our group technical strategy and help achieve our lab’s goals and priorities.

What you’ll do
• Be responsible for all aspects of delivery of new solutions and features, creating low detail designs, lead software development, testing and operational stability, balancing priorities and ensuring adherence to group standards.
• Be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers, guiding and working alongside them on entire software development lifecycle and manage the delivery of robust, scalable data applications and features.
• Ensure applications and code alignment with security principles, secure coding practices, addressing code vulnerabilities and PEN testing resolutions.
• Work with your team to deliver functional and non-functional requirements ensuring these are being met during design, software development and testing.
• Be solving technical problems at pace, identify and implement software engineering best practices, manage task dependencies and priorities to ensure timely delivery.
• Get the opportunity to work with modern tech, data stacks, and cloud-based architectures, managing both the foundational data solutions alongside the adoption of advanced AI and ML capabilities.
• Work alongside the team Product Owner to plan and manage the delivery of feature roadmap to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need
• An experienced Software/Data Engineer with a recent focus on developing data and analytics solutions on cloud platform (e.g. GCP/AWS/Azure). Technical know-how in data engineering techniques which cover both batch processing and /or streaming
• Agile Delivery: Significant experience in scoping and development of technical solutions in an Agile environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Deep technical expertise in software and data engineering, programming languages (python, java etc.). Understanding of orchestration (Composer, DAGs), data processing (Kafka, Flink, DataFlow, dbt), and database capabilities (e.g. BigQuery, CloudSQL, BigTable).
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), IaaC (Terraform) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.
• CI/CD: Detailed understanding of working automated CI/CD pipelines and experience of working with tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Harness etc.
• Problem Solving: Adaptable able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment.
• Collaboration and Communication: Able to influence others with strong communication and interpersonal skills.

It would be great if you also had
• Industry Standard: GCP Data Engineer/ Cloud Architect certifications
• Good appreciation of data security and privacy, and architectural implications it has on application design.
• Modern progressive technologies– e.g. batch/ streaming pipelines, machine learning, artificial intelligence etc.
• High-level knowledge of QA, data quality, and software quality tools such as SonarQube, etc.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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