Overview

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Base pay range

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum

Location and hours

Location: Bristol

Hours: Full-time

Working pattern: Hybrid, spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About the team

Join our Payments Lab team and help shape the future of retail banking through cutting-edge data engineering. The Payments Lab delivers new initiatives and enables cash deposits at local pay point stores. As part of the Consumer Servicing & Engagement (CS&E) Platform, we modernise the tech stack and build new capabilities using the latest technologies across Cloud and Mobile. The CS&E Platform delivers a unified digital servicing proposition for personal customers to improve engagement and self-service experiences.

Opportunity and daily work

Ready to make a significant impact in a world-class financial institution? As a Software Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, you will lead technical development and delivery in collaboration with passionate professionals to implement innovative solutions. This is a great opportunity to work in a dynamic and inclusive environment where your contributions will directly impact millions of customers.

Day to day, you will:

• Work closely with business teams to identify and prove new use cases and the value of AI embedding the data engineering concepts.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-quality data products using clean, maintainable, and efficient solution designs aligned with standard methodologies.
• Work with other engineers and technical SMEs to identify, develop and implement new solutions that deliver customer and business value.
• Promote high quality data engineering practices alongside maintaining an effective control environment, sharing knowledge with others and offering technical leadership or support as needed.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve solutions and present concrete plans to deliver these.
• Grow your capability by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.
• Keep up-to-date with emerging developments in data, engineering and proactively share findings with the team.

What you’ll need

Essential:

• Extensive data engineering experience and implementing data management systems.
• Strong data literacy, with hands-on analytics and development skills.
• Solid knowledge of data governance, architecture, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to extract and effectively communicate key points from complex code bases to support production builds.
• Experience with internal libraries such as GCP shared utilities, and building robust pipeline components using Dataflow, DBT jobs.
• Proficiency in Java, Kafka, GCP (GKE, Cloud tools), BigQuery, and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with automation tools and observability frameworks.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, from experimentation through deployment of containerised models in live environments, using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding or enthusiasm for retail banking and AI opportunities with good understanding of LLM and AI concepts.

Desirable:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Knowledge of data storytelling and quality engineering.
• Previous experience in the financial services sector.

Benefits and working for us

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance

Industries

• Banking

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Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

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