Senior Platform Engineering Lead

End Date
Monday 11 March 2024
Salary Range
£100,657 - £118,420
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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Platform Engineering Lead
SALARY: £100,657-£118,420 per annum
LOCATION: London
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 one of our office sites.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
A great opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineering Lead based in London to join our Data Cloud P latform team within Data & Machine Learning Platform.
We are a Platform Engineering team focused out on building out a cloud-native, managed, data analytics platform on Google Cloud Platform for Lloyds Banking Group. We design and deploy capabilities from ingestion to curation to insight with the goal of enabling the data engineers, analysts and scientists to unleash the value of data.
The team’s goal is providing those capabilities as scalable, self-service offerings that allow the data community to focus on curating data via data pipelines without needing to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
As a Senior Platform Engineering Lead in our Data Cloud Platform, you’ll be:

• Design ing , implement ing and support ing the cloud infrastructure that powers applications, data workloads, and our route-to-live.
  
• C ontinually challenging, motivating, mentoring, and supporting your engineering teams.
  
• Providing leadership on data Platform Engineering as a capability at LBG and support role in engineering guilds .
  
• W orking with the data community to engineer modern cloud-native solution that enable them to unleash the value of our data.
  
• F ocussing obsessively on scalability , enabling data engineers across the bank to build data products using our platform.
  
• A dvocating for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting you r teams in resolution of impediments and issues .
  
• C ontinually developing yourself with industry best practice and tooling used across the engineering team.
  

This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.
ABOUT 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 YOU’LL NEED
We welcome applications from candidates with varying backgrounds, but as a minimum to be successful in this position, your application should demonstrate the below:
Technical Skills

• Cl oud Engineering - Experience with any vendor beneficial though GCP is a bonus
  
• Infrastructure as code - Any vendor beneficial though Te rraform is a bonus
  
• Containerisation - eg Docker
  
• Kuber netes and its ecosystem
  
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines - eg. Harness, Jenkins, Spinnaker , GitHub, GAR
  
• Experience deploying data capabilities to cloud is a bonus - eg. BigQuery , Dataproc , Dataflow, Spark on GKE , DBT on GKE, GCS, BigTable , BigLake , Cloud Composer
  

Behavioural Skills

• Systems thinking - the successful candidate will bring a systemic approach to problem solving.
  
• DevOps Engineering Mindset - The successful candidate will be obsessive about providing a great engineering experience, automation and rapid release of value .
  
• Agile methodology - Experience working in self-organising teams working through a backlog to deliver key capabilities to users .
  
• Leadership - A desire to nurture and develop engineering talent
  

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’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
  

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you !
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.