data engineer Halifax, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Halifax, England
85982 - 52912 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Saturday 12 August 2023Salary Range
£52,912 - £85,982Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
.Job Description
SALARY: £66,861-£74,290 per annum
LOCATION(S): Halifax and/or Leeds (the majority of the team are based in Halifax, so even if you are primarily based in Leeds, you might be asked to go to the Halifax office on occasion for meetings)
HOURS: Full-time position (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 (approximately 2 days a week), at one of our office sites.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Become a part of our digital transformation journey and help us modernise our data environment!
As a GCP Senior Data Engineer with Java programming skills you will be responsible for modernising our data stack by designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines, data solutions and data infrastructure on our Strategic Data Mesh Platform.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient flow of processing of data while serving data products to a wide range of consumers to enhance insights and analysis. This is a hands-on role which requires delivery expertise using Google Cloud Platform data technologies, particularly focussing on Cloud Storage, Big Query, using containerisation (GKE) and additionally Data Build Tool (DBT) for pipeline processing.
In this role, you will:
- Design and develop scalable, reliable, efficient and cost-effective data pipelines and ELT processes on the GCP platform. GCP Professional Data engineer certification essential
- Optimise and tune data pipelines for performance and reliability, ensuring efficient data processing and storage
- Ensure data solutions implemented minimise cloud FinOps costs
- Lead and mentor a team of senior and junior data engineers to deliver Data Products in our Data Mesh Platform
- Present solutions and delivery progress to a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Stay up to date with the latest cutting-edge trends and advancements in GCP data technologies and be able to recommend improvements to enhance and optimise data engineering processes
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
We encourage applications from candidates with varied backgrounds, but to be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate commercial, hands-on experience:
- In both SQL and Java programming languages (hands-on, working experience in Java is particularly important for this position, so candidates without this would not be considered on this occasion unfortunately)
- Working in GCP, with particular focus on Cloud storage and Big Query; GCP Professional Data Engineer certification is essential
- On delivering on data warehousing, data lake or data lakehouse concepts
- Working with containerisation (GKE), Terraform, CI/CD automated code integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Gitops and Harbour
- In event streaming using Kafka, or Cloud Pub Sub
WHY LLOYDS BANKING GROUP?
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
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 also offer a wide-ranging benefits package which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award subject to Group performance
- 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 team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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.
