Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Data Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office site.

About this opportunity:

As a Data Engineer you will undertake and participate in all aspects of the development lifecycle. This will include requirements analysis, solution design, data interrogation and support of the development and test phases with a particular focus on the technical aspects such as Data mapping, creating system interface documentation and understanding database structures/schemas

You will play a key role in one of our significant delivery initiatives where Lloyds Banking Group has partnered with an exciting Fintech group (Satago) to license its award-winning platform to reinvent invoice Finance. You'll work in partnership with our Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect and Data Analyst, in addition to business, technical and operational teams, to integrate this new platform into the Bank and migrate our customers seamlessly to it. You'll lead the technical analytical activities to ensure end-to-end requirements are understood and documented, data is mapped and interfaces / systems are effectively designed to meet the needs of our clients and the future of the Bank.

Encouraging the right culture is key and you'll embrace a "Fail Fast, Learn Faster" approach. Experimenting new ways of engineering and adopting a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What will you be doing with us?

• Engage with the Platform/Product team to ensure solutions remain aligned with the company goals and business requirements.

• Identifying and documenting potential solutions considering all available information and constraints.

• Documenting and maintaining system mapping.

• Input into creation and maintenance of a data dictionary.

• Developing a deep understanding of the platforms and their operation.

• Supporting Engineering resource with issue resolution.

• Ability to create and analyse complex data sets.

• Input into test strategy and support creation of test data and scripts.

• Adhering to relevant methodologies and standards to meet the needs of a fast-paced changing business.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.

• Strong experience in System analysis & proficient across the data lifecycle

• Highly proficient in SQL

• Good knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.

• Experience in delivering change involving 3rd parties, collaborating and working together to achieve a shared goal.

• Experience of sophisticated financial services system integrations involving risk, finance and payments data would be helpful.

• Self-motivation and a track record of working to a high personal and professional standard.

• Experience of working in an Agile platform environment.

• Strong communication skills.

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 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.

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.