Senior Data Engineer

** End Date
** Sunday 01 March 2026
** Salary Range**£70,929 - £78,810
** Flexible Working Options
** Hybrid Working, Job Share
** Job Description Summary**.
** Job Description
***
* JOB TITLE:

** Senior Data Engineer
** SALARY:** £70,929 - £78,810
*
* LOCATION:

** Manchester
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* HOURS:

** Full Time
** WORKING PATTERN:
** We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our
** Manchester
* * office.
** About this opportunity
** An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Intelligent Gateway lab, for a Senior Data Engineer to further build, maintain and develop the banks telephony channel.
** What you’ll do
*** Be responsible for all aspects of delivery of new solutions and features, creating low detail designs, lead software development, testing and operational stability, balancing priorities and ensuring adherence to group standards.
* Be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers, guiding and working alongside them on entire software development lifecycle and manage the delivery of robust, scalable data applications and features.
* Ensure applications and code alignment with security principles, secure coding practices, addressing code vulnerabilities and PEN testing resolutions.
* Work with your team to deliver functional and non-functional requirements ensuring these are being met during design, software development and testing.
* Be solving technical problems at pace, identify and implement software engineering best practices, manage task dependencies and priorities to ensure timely delivery.
* Get the opportunity to work with modern tech, data stacks, and cloud-based architectures, managing both the foundational data solutions alongside the adoption of advanced AI and ML capabilities.
* Work alongside the team Product Owner to plan and manage the delivery of feature roadmap to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
** Why Lloyds Banking Group.
** We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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.
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* What you’ll need:

*** An experienced Software/Data Engineer with a recent focus on developing data and analytics solutions on cloud platform (e.g. GCP/AWS/Azure). Technical know-how in data engineering techniques which cover both batch processing and /or streaming
* Agile Delivery:
Significant experience in scoping and development of technical solutions in an Agile environment.
* Technical Proficiency:
Deep technical expertise in software and data engineering, programming languages (python, java etc.). Understanding of orchestration (Composer, DAGs), data processing (Kafka, Flink, Data Flow, dbt), and database capabilities (e.g. Big Query, Cloud

SQL, Big Table).
* Deep technical expertise in software and data engineering, programming languages (Python, Java, etc.). Understanding of orchestration (Composer, DAGs), data processing (Kafka, Flink, Data Flow, dbt), and database capabilities (e.g., Big Query, Cloud

SQL, Big Table).
* Experience with SQL or Oracle databases
* Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), IaaC (Terraform) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.
* CI/CD:
Detailed understanding of working automated CI/CD pipelines and experience of working with tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Harness etc.
* Leadership:

Experience of leading a team (technical and non-technical).
* Problem Solving:
Adaptable able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment.
* Collaboration and Communication:
Able to influence others with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
** And any experience of these would be useful:
*** Experience with telephony platforms
* Experience with cloud technologies Google Cloud platform (GCP) others (ICP, Azure)
* A passion for delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles
* Industry Standard: GCP Data Engineer/ Cloud Architect certifications
* Good…