Principal Data Engineer

  • Lloyds Bank plc
  • City, Bristol
  • Dec 13, 2025
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

Join our Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform as a Principal Data Engineer. You'll work within multi-functional product engineering teams to deliver top-quality data capabilities, demonstrating your engineering expertise and cloud opportunities What you'll need: large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS. Strong experience working with (Real Time streaming), such as Kafka technologies Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts. Good understating of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning And any experience of these would be really useful: Certification in GCP "Cloud Architect", "Cloud Developer", "Professional Data Engineer" Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK) Why Lloyds Banking Group: 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. 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%Extensive industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD. Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go). Strong working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakesExperience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop) • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 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.