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Key Details
JOB TITLE: Python Developer
SALARY: as per pay range
LOCATION: Leeds, Wellington Place
ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S): Halifax, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport
HOURS: Full Time, 35 hours per week
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
Do you have a passion for developing Python applications, driving innovation and automation? Do you have experience building financial models? If so, we're eager to meet you!
We’re looking for a dedicated Python Developer to join our Retail Finance Change team and drive real, business-critical transformation—delivering ground breaking financial solutions. You’ll bring curiosity, analytical thinking, and a passion for change as we tackle a strategic backlog of development and optimisation.
Why 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.
Day to day responsibilities
Take ownership of the full delivery lifecycle of Python financial models and automation tools, including design, build, testing, packaging, release, and ongoing support.
Work closely with Business Analysts and domain experts to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Develop performant financial models and automation tools, optimised for use with large datasets.
Develop user-friendly UIs for model execution and reporting using modern frameworks.
Package and distribute models as deployable artefacts, ensuring reproducibility and dependency management.
Ensure code quality and maintainability with thorough unit, integration and system tests.
Actively participate in design forums and peer code reviews, providing and responding positively to constructive feedback.
Provide mentorship and line management for a Junior Python developer.
Share your Python expertise through collaborative learning sessions with members of the team.
Support the design and implementation of robust operating models.
Leverage your expertise to help shape our technical future; ensure we use the best tools and infrastructure available to us.
What you’ll need
1. Proven track record of Python model development and implementation.
2. Understanding of core software development principles.
3. Ability to develop complex financial models, optimise for performance and handle large datasets efficiently.
4. Experience with common Python tooling and best practices, including:
- Virtual environments.
- Package management (e.g. uv, pip, poetry).
- Source control (e.g., Git/GitHub) for collaborative development.
- CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
- Testing frameworks (e.g. pytest, unittest).
- Code quality (e.g. flake8, black, isort, myp, ruff)
5. Documentation tools (e.g., MkDocs, Sphinx) for maintainable technical documentation.
6. Excellent communication and presentation skills.
7. Passion for learning and staying ahead of the curve.
And any experience of these would be really useful
8. Experience with front-end technologies e.g. React.
9. Experience with data processing and validation libraries (Polars, Pandera), numerical computing (NumPy, Numba), and API frameworks (FastAPI).
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
10. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
11. An annual performance-related bonus
12. Share schemes including free shares
13. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
14. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
15. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.