Principal Data Engineer, Lloyds
£92.7-109.1k
+ Annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
2+ days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
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Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£92.7-109.1k
+ Annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record
- Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD
- Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go)
- Strong working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakes
- Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop)
- Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS
- Strong experience working with (Real Time streaming), such as Kafka technologies
- Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts
- Good understating of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning
Desirable
- Certification in GCP “Cloud Architect”, “Cloud Developer”, “Professional Data Engineer”
- Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
What the job involves
- Join our Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform as a Principal Data Engineer
- You'll work within multi-functional product engineering teams to deliver top-quality data capabilities, demonstrating your engineering expertise and cloud opportunities
- Architect and implement scalable, resilient, low-latency data systems
- Ensure systems meet performance and reliability standards
- Collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders
- Set technical strategy and best practices for data engineering
- Deliver solutions for multiple entities within the group
- Ensure alignment with business needs and cloud opportunities
- Promote secure, high-quality data pipelines
- Implement standards for data integrity and compliance
- Identify and eliminate recurring issues through automation
- Improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention
- Provide guidance and technical leadership
Application process
- End Date: January 10, 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its current technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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