Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

***An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Lead Software Data Engineer - Data Transfer & Management Services team to join our office in Bristol Harbourside. Base Salary £70, 080 - £87, 600 plus excellent benefits package.

Job Description

Our team

We're Data Transfer and Integration Lab, and we're building the future centralised digital nervous system using the power of our existing batch technologies centred on IBM’s Info sphere DataStage stack, alongside our emerging Cloud Strategy and streaming analytics capability to get closer to our customers. As a part of the next phase of our Transformation we'll be moving more into Streaming of data and Cloud Technologies to meet those data needs and you'll be right at the heart of that transformation.

Core purpose of the role

As a key member of our agile development community, with a dedication to excellent technical quality, you'll build, maintain, and evolve our data capabilities whilst embracing industry best practices and standards. You'll be delivering projects from the business requirements collecting phase through to Live Implementation; be involved in ground-breaking activities as we migrate processing into a multi-cloud target using Cloud solutions both within the IBM Cloud Pak4 Data Environment and more widely into other Cloud providers such as Azure and Google.

Where you’ll make a difference:

As a Lead Software Data Engineer, you'll work across multiple teams, providing guide rails to ensure that our services are built to our architectural principles and encouraged capabilities; be passionate for mentoring people in a “player-coach” model, and help drive agile adoption in the teams and adoption of collaboration tools. You’ll collaborate efficiently and deepen relationships with teams in UK (London and Manchester) and India, and network with user groups to understand the direction of travel for our services.

We’re looking for the following essential experience:

• Experience of roles across the Lifecycle including business requirements and stakeholder management, analysis and design of solutions
• Proto typing, Build, Test, Implementation and Application Support
• Knowledge of Metadata Solutions and how they are used to drive delivery, Metadata Harvesting
• Significant experience in Data Management tooling and their application e.g. Attacama (Data Quality), ILM (Archiving) and Colibra (Meta data management)
• Experience of DevOps processes and tooling i.e. GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode
• Interest and curiosity about learning new tools and techniques and help and encourage others to do the same
• Passion for building positive relationships with engineering teams and product owners and helping to translate strategies into pragmatic solutions

We’d also welcome the following desirable skills:

• Champion of cultural changes including adoption of Agile and DevOps tooling e.g. JIRA, Confluence etc and practices e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Huge LeSS
• Hands on experience of languages, tools, and infrastructure
• Understanding or ideally experience of Cloud Native solutions including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure

Together we make it possible. What you'll get in return:

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-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

You'll also receive a package that includes: a competitive base salary, a discretionary variable bonus; 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.

We’re open to providing flexible working though our hybrid working patterns.

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!

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.

Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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'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.