Senior Data Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - GBP 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Bristol is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and manage data pipelines using Google Cloud Platform. This full-time hybrid role involves working closely with various teams to build and optimize data solutions for AI applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud-native technologies, automation, and a passion for operational excellence. This role offers a competitive salary and generous benefits, including up to 15% pension contribution and 30 days of holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Share schemes

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proficiency in cloud-native tooling and scripting.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to lead initiatives independently.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data engineering pipelines.
• Collaborate with product teams on data transformations.
• Mentor junior engineers and support the team’s growth.

Skills

Cloud-native technologies

Automation and scripting (Python, Apache Beam, Bash)

DevOps practices

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

dBT

Dataflow

Job description

Senior Data Engineer page is loaded## Senior Data Engineerlocations: Bristoltime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: February 18, 2026 (28 days left to apply)job requisition id: 147339**End Date**Tuesday 17 February 2026**Salary Range**£70,929 - £78,810**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share**Job Description Summary**.**Job Description****JOB TITLE:** Senior Data Engineer**SALARY:** £72,702 - £84,000 per annum**LOCATION:** Bristol**HOURS:** Full-time – 35 hours**WORKING PATTERN:** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.**About this opportunity…**The Finance Platform – AI & Agentic team is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team! If you thrive on enabling high-performing software, streamlining data pipelines and automating ETL processes, you’re looking in the right place.You’ll play a key role in crafting and delivering our Finance AI & Agentic Data strategy, applying modern cloud-native technologies to accelerate data delivery, improve operational resilience, and ensure compliance with security and engineering standards. You’ll be working with Data Analytics managers and business stakeholders to build Finance based AI intelligence solutions – your role will be to source data, understand the data, build data pipelines and identify how to automate all data pipelines.You’ll be comfortable understanding the architecture and use of all data products - CDPs, ODPs and FDPs – to create strong reuse and sourcing of data for our AI & ML models. Working with solution architects to create software and data solutions to support AI and ML applications to be developed –with security, control and lineage to be incorporated into your detailed designs. You will be working closely with data scientists, ML & AI engineers, software and DevOps engineers to collaborate on solutions to best serve our internal finance customers.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.**What you’ll do…*** Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and performant Data engineering pipelines and tooling on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).* Collaborate with engineers, architects, and product teams to enable data pipelines, data transformations and script data loads.* You’ll support building BigQuery datasets & materialised views to support the Data Analytics teams, and work to keep our data costs low and queries streamlined.* Implementing and using tools such as dBT, dataflow, EasyIngest etc to manage data effectively.* Champion the use of endorsed technologies and common build patterns to minimise technical debt.* Mentor junior engineers and support recruitment to grow Data Engineering capability across the team, lab and platform.**What you’ll need…*** Understanding of utilising DevOps with data engineering practices and cloud-native tooling, including YAML scripting, CI/CD, source code management, and orchestration.* Proficiency with automation and scripting in languages like Python, Apache Beam, Bash, or your preferred language.* A passion for process improvement, operational excellence, and platform reliability.* Ability to lead initiatives independently and influence engineering best practices.* Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and teamwork skills.* Experience using gcloud commands for provisioning resources in containerized applications* Data integration with multiple internal platforms- AI tool (Vertex, Cortex), Machine Learning as a service, on-prem databases.**And any experience of these would be useful...*** Experience using Gcloud commands for provisioning resources in containerized applications* Understanding of cost optimisation in cloud environments.* Understand how to utilise API & MCP connectivity and enablement to support our applications and data pipelines.**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. 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**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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.