data engineer Halifax, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Halifax, England
63420 - 57078 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 30 June 2023Salary Range
£57,078 - £63,420Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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About LBG
Continuing the extensive LBG transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to become a truly data centric organisation where technology and data are key pillars of our transformation strategy.
We are looking to evolve our Data Analytics and AI capability in Cloud Services, where we enhance the platform offering to enable the exploitation of data and analytics in the public cloud. This will mean leveraging Google Cloud Platform capabilities, products and services.
About the role
Data Engineer
The Group People & Places Data Hub is the central Data & Analytics function for the P&P division. As a Data Engineer, you'll have hands-on responsibility for the acquisition, profiling, design, curation, validation, improvement and manipulation of People and Places data used for LBG enterprise consumption. You will have a real passion for data combining next generation cloud technology with Colleague data and insight.
So, if you have a desire to work in an exciting role and be part of our journey to leverage data as a reusable strategic asset supporting data-lead decision making, then please get in touch as we’d love to hear from you!
What we’re looking for:
A track record of hands-on Data Management is a must, as are a “can-do” attitude, tech savvy, and having an inquisitive growth mindset. Using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and follow-through to a successful outcome.
Essential skills & experience:
- Experience with Data Build Tool (DBT) and YAML or other industry ETL tools and solutions
- Experience of prior programming, ideally Python, SQL, Java and/or other open-source technologies
- End-to-end data management life-cycle from requirements & data acquisition to industrialising solutions within a managed service
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn and leverage new and emerging technology.
- Strong creative and conceptual thinker, but ability to keep it simple.
- Proficiency in MS Office suite
Highly Desirable:
- Recent hands-on use of Collibra toolset for enterprise business and technical metadata management
- Experience with Jenkins, Github , Jira, Confluence and other tools for automation and workflow management
- Use of message passing architectures, ideally pub/sub
- Previous experience of data curation and consumption design used for AI, Machine Learning and Advanced/Deep Analytics
- Hands-on recent experience of Data Quality profiling and treatments, Coding Standards, Version control, sustainable rested data efficiencies and/or performance tuning (e.g. Indexing)
- Practical experience working with a broad set of Google Cloud products & services, including BigQuery
- Certified in Google Cloud Platform, with Associate Cloud Engineer and/or Professional Data Engineer certification (or a willingness to progress at pace once in role)
- Innovative - constantly looking for new ways of solving problems and delivering more efficient solutions, especially using automation and DevOps methodologies. Will champion/challenge the status quo to improve the service and consumer experience.
- Passion for software and data engineering, adopting the mindset of a curious and resilient engineer that safeguard our data from security threats.
- Adopting an ‘automation first’ approach with a passion for driving efficiency and a focus on reducing risk within
- Effective inter-personal communication skills and ability to adapt to working with others
Desirable
- Banking or Financial services background
- Working in a large matrix organisation, delivering in both traditional fast path Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- An active interest in new technologies with an awareness of developments and trends within the data internal / external landscape
So, if you have the skills, background, and outlook we're seeking then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you!
What can we offer you in return?
Annual basic salary range:
In line with our strategy to be the Best Bank for Colleagues, we encourage a culture of professional development. You'll have numerous opportunities to stretch and develop beyond core role responsibilities. In addition, recognition for colleague contribution and performance is a truly meaningful element of our colleague charter.
You'll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity!
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll receive:
- A Discretionary Performance Share Award
- Generous pension contribution
- 30 days leave plus bank holidays
- Access to various benefits
- Private health cover
- Share Schemes
So why should you apply?
You’ll become part of a team that has an inclusive, values-led culture. This means we embrace that not everyone is the same or likes to work in the same way. We're focused on delivering for both our customers and our colleagues; you’ll receive support to learn, grow and develop, benefitting from a huge range of opportunities opened up by being part of our Group.
Offering hybrid working patterns we believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you.
We are passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families.
We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve, where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.
And we’re proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum.
Together we make it possible….
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.
About Lloyds Banking Group
CEO: Charlie Nunn
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/careers
Year Founded: 1695
