Data Engineer

We're recruiting a Data Engineer to help setup the basis of the Data Engineering Team within Embedded Finance. The Embedded Finance team is a fast-paced start-up group within Consumer Lending and is tasked with building out propositions that solve customers' financial needs, when and where they are. We have just launched our first product, Black Horse Flex Pay, and we're developing innovative products aiming to offer customers and merchants modern ways for online purchasing, with the ethos of Lloyds Banking Group responsible lending. What will I be doing? As a Data Engineer, you'll participate in many aspects of the broad EF Data Engineering roadmap, including designing and implementing data pipelines on cloud that will fuel the business insights and decision-making of our product, serving millions of customers. You'll develop the data ingestion and transformation pipelines on a Snowflake platform, optimising the data warehousing for performance and scalability. You'll participate in the definition and application of the policies for Data Quality, Management, and Security, tailoring Lloyds Banking Group's established Data Governance standards to the dynamic Embedded Finance environment. You'll apply your technical skills and expand your knowledge on Data Engineering with exposure to complex topics, with plenty of opportunity to experiment and enhance your engineering skills. Why Lloyds Banking Group From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

• Proficiency in SQL and Python and love for programming
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure, in particular GCP
• Strong passion for data stores, data warehouses, big data technologies, ETL and data lakes
• Deep interest in architecting modern data solutions that support both analytics and production use cases
• Solid foundation in Computer Science, SDLC, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
And any experience of these would be really useful
• Experience with Snowflake
• Familiarity with Embedded Finance or financial services applications
• Familiarity with distributed data frameworks
• Passion about technology, curiosity to follow current and future trends
  
  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
• 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
• 28 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. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. 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 keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 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.