Principal Data Engineer – Lloyds Banking Group
End date: Friday 09 January 2026
Salary range: £92,701 – £109,060
Flexible working options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job description summary:
JOB TITLE: Principal Data Engineer
SALARY: £90,440 – £106,400
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full-time
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.
Job Description
* Architect and implement scalable, resilient, low-latency data systems.
* Ensure systems meet performance and reliability standards.
* Collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders.
* Set technical strategy and best practices for data engineering.
* Deliver solutions for multiple entities within the group.
* Ensure alignment with business needs and cloud opportunities.
* Promote secure, high-quality data pipelines.
* Implement standards for data integrity and compliance.
* Identify and eliminate recurring issues through automation.
* Improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
* Provide guidance and technical leadership.
What you’ll need
* Extensive industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record.
* 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 lakes.
* Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop).
* 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 understanding 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).
Benefits
* 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.
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.
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 future of the financial services, 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, at which point 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.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
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