Database Engineer (Data Resilience)

Database Engineer (Data Resilience)

Lloyds Banking Group

London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home.

Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance.

About us:

Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper.

A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines.

The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events.

Background:

Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds.

Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services.

The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this:

Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL.

About the Role

As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm.

The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the technical data reliability point of contact for Data Resilience.

• Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached.

• Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks.

• Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps.

• Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications.

• Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained.

• Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures.

• Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases

• Support and grow team members in database domains of Data Resilience.

• Present Data Resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders.

What we're looking for;

We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV;

• 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable)

• Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5)

• Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies

• Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild.

• Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures

• Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation)

• Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory

• Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys.

• Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Its great if you have:

• Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains.

• Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery.

• Experience in Data Mesh

• Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW)

• Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity.

About working for us.

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.

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more