Lloyds Banking Group
Didsbury, Manchester
Nov 04, 2021
Full time
***A great opportunity has arisen for a Lead Engineer - Data to our Data Transfer and Management Services Lab based in our office at Centron House, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 5QZ. Base Salary £70, 080 - 87, 600 plus excellent benefits package. Our team works a hybrid working pattern, and we'll meet in office 2 - 3 days per week post-Covid (depending on the week). We're happy to offer flexible work schedules, for example start and finish times, or compressed hours! *** About Lloyds Banking Group As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy and have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers. Our team We're the Data Transfer and Management Services Lab building and managing the future centralised digital nervous system, using the power of our existing batch technologies centred on IBM's Infosphere DataStage stack, alongside our emerging cloud strategy and streaming analytics capability to get closer to our customers. All of this is underpinned by the excellent Data Management delivered through the latest industry tooling and strong governance practises. This will be the backbone of our Event data processing hub. Want to know more about our team? Our goal is, within the confines of strong governance, to democratise Lloyds Bank's dataset. We're currently supporting 1'000's of processes across the Bank, acting as the Enterprise Data Integration and Management function within the Bank for Retail, Risk, Fraud, Customer insight, Commercial and Corporate. We're on an exciting journey and the next phase of our transformation is moving more into streaming of data and cloud technologies underpinned again through Data Management tools and techniques to meet data needs and our team will be right at the heart of that transformation. What we'd like to see from you: Our team is looking for a hardworking and adaptable Lead Engineer, a technical leader with data engineering expertise, with a growth mind-set and a dedication to technical leadership, developing strategy and driving the direction of an engineering team. As a key member of our agile development community, you'll evolve our data capabilities whilst embracing the best industry standards. About the role In this technical leader role, you'll make a real difference, and you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise across several component and feature teams. You'll be innovating the epicentre of the digital revolution in Enterprise Data as we begin our journey to the cloud and enabling earlier value release for our customers. Driving down the total cost of ownership of our products and driving agile adoption as part of the broader engineering community. You'll hold a key role in setting the direction and vision for the team, for all software engineers in your area, and for collaborating and forging relationships with teams in the UK (London, Bristol, Manchester) and India. Experience in following areas: Required Proven technical leadership, setting direction, vision, and strategy for team Technical know-how of ETL Tooling and Streaming and how they fit with cloud technologies experience, and delivering data engineering solutions Mainframe understanding and experience, specifically with scheduling capability, knowledge of containers at scale: such as, AKS/GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio Knowledge of microservices/service mesh, cloud native solutions from cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure Understanding of job frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Spark, Apache Storm or similar You're someone that has a technical background on DevOps tooling on capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode. Additionally, database technology experience such as Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, DB2 and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and HBase. Additionally, you'll have real passion for coaching and mentoring of less experienced software engineers. We'd also welcome someone with the following desirable skills and experience: Show capability to change, evolve and to learn new tools and techniques and help and encourage others to do likewise Shows accomplished experience in, supplier/partner management, analysis and design of solutions, proto-typing, build, test and implementation Someone that is championing cultural changes including adoption of agile e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and practices e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Huge LeSS Experience in metadata harvesting, knowledge of metadata solutions, data management practises and tooling for example Collibra, Information Governance Catalogue (IBM IGC), Atacamma and Ab>Initio Metadata Hub What you'll get in return: As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture passionate about making a difference. You'll also receive a package that includes a competitive base salary, discretionary variable bonus reward; cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits (or simply take the cash), private medical insurance; pension where we'll give up to a max of 15%; access to share plans and 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Together we make it possible. We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best. We're open to providing flexible working though our hybrid working patterns. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform key job functions. Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today!