Head Of Data Transformation

End Date
Thursday 30 May 2024
Salary Range
£111,469 - £131,140
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Job Share
Job Description Summary
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading bank with over 30m customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers.
We’ve placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.
We serve millions of customers every day, from individuals and families to large businesses and corporations. This means we’re well - placed to help Britain prosper by shaping the way we spend, save and borrow.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Head of Data Transformation
LOCATION(S): Chester
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least
two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.
About this opportunity
We're on the lookout for a Head of Data Transformation with a vision to innovate and a keenness to guide our transition into a future driven by cloud, AI, and advanced analytics.
Reporting to the Cards Managing Director, your mission is to lead our strategy and execution plan, ensuring we're ready for tomorrow's data challenges.
Your expertise will steer us from traditional batch data to dynamic streaming data systems, enhancing business decision-making with automated solutions. You'll oversee data integration within LBG, establish standards, take charge of Data products, and launch new data-driven market solutions.
If you like to use data to solve problems, rewire the business from a zero-base to deliver a step change in performance, and to work with a highly data literate team, this is the place to be. Come help us stay ahead.
Responsible for the development of the Group's Data & Analytics strategy, shaping and embedding operating models, influencing and managing key stakeholders and driving strategic planning across the Divisional Data Offices across the Group.
Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for shaping and executing our agenda and roadmap to prepare our business for the next generation of cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics capabilities.
  
• Can guide us on the transition from batch data to streaming data, enabling us to make more informed, granular decisions through automated account treatment and alerting systems.
  
• You'll be an integral part of our Cards leadership team, bringing your expertise in data to the table while driving business outcomes of significant commercial worth.
  
• Your role will involve federating data across the business, building robust data analytics capabilities, and setting high standards for data excellence throughout our Cards division.
  
• Take ownership of Data products, deploying investment funding to realise business outcomes and introducing new data consumption products to the market.
  
• Stay aHead of the curve, bringing insights and innovations from outside LBG to our Cards business. By operating at the cutting edge of financial services and tech development, you'll ensure that we're well-positioned to compete in the age of artificial intelligence.
  

What you'll need

• Strategic thinker with proven success of leveraging data to drive business success.
  
• Ability to shape the future in data, delivering core value to customers.
  
• Experience of staying aHead of the curve in rapidly evolving landscape of Data and technology.
  
• Exceptional collaboration and leadership Skills.
  
• Strategic Data Management expertise.
  
• Applied Data Science proficiency.
  
• Cloud Native solutions delivery.
  
• Effective communication and storytelling.
  
• Cards/payments background would be desirable.
  

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
  

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.