About the role

  • Engineering Lead for data and software engineering at Lloyds Banking Group. Leading teams, driving modernization, and ensuring compliance in a regulated banking environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead high‑performing teams: Build psychologically safe teams with strong engineering standards and ownership.
  • Deliver at scale: Ship reliable services for prudential calculations and regulatory reporting.
  • Set engineering excellence: Drive CI/CD, testing, code quality, and secure, observable architectures.
  • Design and run data platforms: Own canonical data models and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP.
  • Modernise and enable: Embed governance, modernise legacy analytics safely, and grow engineering capability through coaching.

Requirements

  • Proven data engineering experience including designing data models, normalisation, and entity relationship for analytics at scale.
  • Hands-on building ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestrations (ideally Airflow/Cloud Composer) on GCP.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control (Git/GitHub), PR discipline, code reviews, automated testing (unit/integration), and CI/CD.
  • Proficiency in Python for data engineering and service development; writing clean, efficient, well-structured code.
  • Practical data governance mindset: access controls, lineage, cataloguing, and data quality embedded into delivery.
  • Experience in a regulated environment (banking/financial services ideal) and familiarity with prudential/regulatory data needs (e.g., Basel III, CRD IV).
  • People leadership: coaching engineers, setting standards, aligning teams around outcomes, and creating momentum.

Benefits

  • 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

Job title

Engineering Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£92,701 - £169,043 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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