Lloyds Banking Group
Lead Data Engineer
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Lead Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer
End Date: Wednesday 29 July 2026
Salary Range: £92,701 – £109,060 Work Pattern: Hybrid (2+ working days per week in office) Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)
We support flexible working – additional options available here: <hybrid working, job share>
Job Description
Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Salary: £92,701 – £109,060
Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Working Pattern:
Our work style is hybrid (at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site). We accommodate colleagues with disabilities through adjustments, including flexible hybrid working, as per Flexibility Works Policy.
The Role
At Lloyds Banking Group, we are pioneering protective innovation, securing customers, teams, and services in an ever-advancing threat landscape. The Security Data & AI Lab—a division of the Chief Security Office—leads this effort, shaping AI-driven and data engineering capabilities for smart, proactive cybersecurity defences.
We need a Lead Data Engineer to lead and shape our lab’s data engineering function. This is a senior technical and leadership role, demanding technical expertise while championing strategic alignment and business impact.
You’ll thrive by:
- Defining and driving the data engineering strategy and product roadmap
- Building and overseeing scalable data pipelines
- Embedding secure-by-design and resilient data engineering practices
- Enabling production-grade data foundations for AI, ML, and advanced analytics
- Partnering with Security, Cloud, Architecture, and Product teams to align technical solutions with business goals
- Mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a high-performance tech culture
About Security Data & AI Lab
We merge data engineering, security, and AI to orchestrate cutting-edge threat prevention. The team is made up of skilled engineers, AI specialists, and strategists all focused on embedding safe, efficient, and innovative data capabilities across security systems.
This leads to lasting impact—high-risk vulnerabilities are prevented with data-driven intelligence, while our team remains agile, providing the best-in-class defence for Lloyds’ customers, systems, and reputation.
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Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Shape data engineering best practices, ensuring scaling, reliability, and innovation
- Own and refine data platforms, including cloud-native (Azure/AWS/GCP) architectures
- Drive data modelling, governance, metadata, and lineage strategies
- Craft high-performing pipelines for ML/AI workflows, analytics, and security monitoring
Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner across security, cloud, architecture, product, and data science teams to balance agility, security, and scalability
- Embed enterprise data standards and govern the security and governance landscape
- Champion zero-trust data security principles through big data and AI applications
Engineering Culture & Mentorship
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture, prioritising learning and innovation
- Develop and mentor senior developers, driving personal and team growth
- Encourage alignment between technical goals and business outcomes
Requirements
Must-Have Experience & Skills
- Proven leadership in delivering complex data projects (senior/lead engineer experience)
- Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms and pipelines
- Hands-on cloud-native data platforms experience (Azure, AWS, GCP/enterprise environments)
- Deep understanding of data modelling, governance, quality, metadata, and lineage
- Balancing acts: Technical pragmatism ensuring resilience, fast delivery, and long-term maintainability
- Proven application of engineering best practices: CI/CD, automated testing, observability, version control
- Skilled in stakeholder collaboration across engineering, security, data science, and product teams
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with MLOps/SMLOps and model lifecycle management
- Exposure to AI/ML pipelines, feature stores, or big data analytics platforms
- Knowledge of AI governance and secure generative/agentic AI adoption
- Experience working in security-focused, regulatory organisations
- Familiarity with event-driven and streaming data architectures
Why Join Us?
If you think all banks operate the same, think again—we’re pioneering finance as a transformative force for societal good.
At Lloyds Banking Group, you’ll:
✔ Shape the future of fintech and security through high-impact projects ✔ Learn and thrive in a fast-evolving, dynamic environment ✔ Make a real difference in cybersecurity and financial protection
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We’re not just a workplace; we’re a colleague community committed to innovation, equality, and excellence.
Our Commitments
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We’re striving to be the number one business for DE&I in the UK—pledged to:
- Thoughtful inclusion across all roles and communities
- Supportive workplace policies*, including:
- Menopause health ( gathering)
- Working with Cancer initiative
- Flexibility and accommodation for neurodiversity and disability
- Disability Confident Leader
- We guarantee interviews to a fair proportion of applicants with disabilities meeting the minimum standards, aligning with the government’s Disability Confident Scheme.
- Reasonable workplace adjustments available at every stage of recruitment—don’t hesitate to ask.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
🏢 Generous Pension (15%) 📈 Annual Bonus (Performance-Driven) 💼 Share Schemes (Including Free Shares Property) 🛒 Employee Discounts 📅 44+ Days Holiday + Bank Holidays 🌿 Free healthcare checks & counselling services 👨👩👧👦 Parental leave up to 52 weeks
Our Values
- Purposeful: Drive financial prosperity for Britain
- Navigators: Adapt to meet changing needs with research-backed decisions
- Inspiring: Empower diversity and a safe, inclusive culture
- Pragmatic: Deliver against aggressive timelines
- Innovative: Achieve world-class security through forward-thinking methods
Join Lloyds Banking Group
The future of data engineering and security is here. Your role won’t just be solving challenges—it’ll be leading them.
We’re fast-paced, ambitious, and devoted to doing banking better. Partner with us to: build security that anticipates, safeguard data that stays forward-thinking, and shape the future of banking through engineering brilliance.
Ready to make your impact? Apply now.
Contact Us: For anything, email careers@lloydsbanking.com
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