Data Engineering Lead

Job Description

End dateMonday 13 November 2023Salary range£104,368 - £130,460Agile Working OptionsFlexible / Variable Hours; Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to DiscussionJob descriptionData Engineering LeadLloyds Banking GroupManchester: Hybrid working arrangements - 2 days per week in the office and the rest from homeSalary & Benefits: £118,652 to £153,549 base salary, depending on experience.Additional Package: Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), flexible benefits system, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.Flexibility Works : We’re extremely flexible employers, offering a range of options to suit your lifestyle including flexible hours, flex-summer holidays, flex-bank holidays, great parental support and a real focus on finding work-life balance.About us:If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.“Hands on Mindset”, we’re raising our technical bar across the group and want to find someone for this role who enjoys keeping their technical edge, while honing their craft & providing technical direction. Were the Data Movement Services Lab within the Data & Machine Learning (DML) Platform, building and managing the future centralised nervous system for the Bank. The Lab runs from London and Manchester within the UK, as well as India.Underpinning this is a large batch estate centred on IBM’s Infosphere DataStage stack. We’re in the midst of an exciting journey to modernise this capability onto Cloud technologies. Alongside this, we have a major growth area focused on streaming of data basedon Confluent Kafka and where we have developed and deployed an Enterprise events hub onto cloud.What will you focus on in this roleYou’ll be the Data Engineering Lead for this platform providing in depth technical direction, while also leading roughly 100-150 multidisciplinary staff at any one time, of which 8-12 will be direct senior management reports. Work will be a mix of changed focusedprojects and business as usual activities which focus upon building data pipelines, patterns and frameworks that enable data to be processed at scale.You’ll be a trustworthy leader who aims to inspire the technical data community and continue our growth as an organisation, both in terms of staff hiring and technical prowess. This is a fantastic role if you are passionate about the positive power of dataand engineering, you’ll have the management backing, funding & support to help make it happen!You’ll provide technical leadership and direction around data streaming services & technologies like Kafka. You’ll be part of the broader DML engineering leadership team driving and supporting initiatives outside the core Lab and Platform.Everything we do is underpinned by Agile working methodologies using modern DevOps practices, and we’re continuously improving!Youll work alongside the Lab’s Product Owner in a “two-in-a-box” model to development technical roadmaps supporting the strategy of the products and services, ensuring that engineers’ capabilities are aligned to the plans.What do we need to see in your applicationWed welcome applicants from diverse cultural, domain and technological backgrounds and believe this is critical to success. This is a senior role in a niche area, so as a minimum to be considered for shortlisting we need to see evidence of the following inyour CV;

• Career Background: An experience technical leader with most of your career in the field of data, working at senior management level. This is a large & challenging role and your time will be fairly equally split between providing technical direction& people management with an element of stakeholder management.
• “Hands on Mindset” - recent hands on technical skills in a relevant coding language to provide technical leadership & mentoring/coaching, but may only be hands up onto 10% in role. A desire to be hands on and enjoy remaining hands on, honing theircraft while providing technical direction.
• Technical know-how of ETL tooling, specifically including knowledge of batch data processing AND streaming. Streaming technology experience AND batch data processing knowledge is essential.
• In depth expertise with Kafka.
• Exposure to public cloud and a strong awareness of advantages/disadvantages & the ability to provide technical leadership around the transition to cloud. We’re platform agnostic!
• Leadership: You’ll want to be comfortable leading mixed technical teams of at least 50+ already, good mentoring/coaching skills and with a real joy for seeing people develop & succeed.
• Experience in end-to-end delivery of software products using Agile and DevOps

About working for us:Our focus is to ensure were 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’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive Apply today and find out more