End Date
Friday 06 June 2025Salary Range
£70,929 - £106,394We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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Hybrid Working, Job ShareJob Description Summary
Software Engineer will lead technical development and delivery at Team and sometimes Lab level. They can be a Line Manager who will act as co-lead with the Team PO for overall delivery. In these cases, they will be responsible for overall tech delivery, line management & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output.. Others will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and deeper in focus.Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
SALARY: £70,929-£78,810
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
Become a part of our digital transformation journey and help us modernise our data environment!
As a GCP Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for modernising our data stack by designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines, data solutions and data infrastructure on our Strategic Data Mesh Platform.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient flow of processing of data while serving data products to a wide range of consumers to enhance insights and analysis. This is a hands-on role which requires delivery expertise using Google Cloud Platform data technologies, particularly focussing on Cloud Storage, Big Query, using containerisation (GKE) and additionally Data Build Tool (DBT) for pipeline processing.
In this role, you will:
Design and develop scalable, reliable, efficient and cost-effective data pipelines and ELT processes on the GCP platform.
GCP Professional Data engineer certification essential
Optimise and tune data pipelines for performance and reliability, ensuring efficient data processing and storage
Ensure data solutions implemented minimise cloud FinOps costs
Lead and mentor a team of senior and junior data engineers to deliver
Data Products in our Data Mesh Platform Present solutions and delivery progress to a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Stay up to date with the latest cutting-edge trends and advancements in GCP data technologies and be able to recommend improvements to enhance and optimise data engineering processes.
What you will need
Experience with both SQL and Java programming languages
Experience working in GCP, with particular focus on Cloud storage and Big Query
GCP Professional Data Engineer certification
Experience delivering on data warehousing, data lake or data lakehouse concepts
Experience working with containerisation (GKE), Terraform, CI/CD automated code integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Gitops and Harbour In event streaming using Kafka, or Cloud Pub Sub
About working for us
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.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
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.
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