Head of Intelligent Data Enablement

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JOB TITLE: Head of Intelligent Data Enablement (Open)

SALARY: From £114,810

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Chester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Halifax, Hove, Leeds, Manchester, Newport or Rochdale

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re motivated by a clear purpose - to Help Britain Prosper. Across our Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities to help the UK economy recover.

We’re adapting, innovating, responding swiftly to tech shifts, evolving regulation, and changing customer preferences in our dynamic sector. Looking ahead to 2030, Data and AI will drive customer happiness, business efficiency, and performance. Redefining financial services will require a focus on talent, data, analytics, and AI.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference!

• Understands external market context and how it impacts the Groups' strategy.
• Defines and takes ownership of the delivery roadmap for data and tooling capabilities that underpin our 2030 strategy.
• Acts as a senior thought partner to the Consumer Relationships and Consumer Lending Data Directors, influencing investment and capability prioritisation.
• Helps the Consumer business use new data capabilities during transition from legacy platforms to modern cloud-native environments.
• Defines the consumption data products required to support intelligent decisioning, personalisation, and operational efficiency.
• Drives the rollout of strategic tooling across Consumer Relationships, including self-serve analytics, data lineage, identity governance, and AI-assisted tooling.
• Develops strategies and practices increasing colleagues’ data literacy.
• Scans the horizon for new technologies (e.g. agentic AI, synthetic data, privacy-enhancing tech) and translate them into actionable opportunities.
• Stays updated with the latest data trends and anticipates new data analysis requirements.
• Keeps us safe, working closely with CDAO, Risk, and Controls teams.
• Tracks tangible and quantifiable delivery through of strategic objectives and tooling adoption.

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t 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.

• Deep understanding of modern data platforms (e.g. GCP, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow).
• Experience with data modelling (e.g. star schema, data vault), metadata management, lineage, and data lifecycle governance.

• Familiarity with enterprise tooling such as SailPoint, Collibra, Tableau, Looker, dbt, and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow).
• Understanding of identity and access management, role-based access control, and data masking techniques.

• Knowledge of AI/ML tooling (e.g. Vertex AI, DataRobot), model governance, and responsible AI principles.
• Experience enabling self-serve analytics and building capabilities for business-led insight generation.

• Experience working in cloud-native environments with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of data security, encryption, and compliance in regulated environments.

• Experience in leading large-scale data and technology transformation programmes in financial services.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate at ExCo and Board level.

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 under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.

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.