Senior DevOps Engineer

End Date

Monday 13 April 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £109,053

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Job Description Summary

Software Engineer will lead technical development and delivery at Team and sometimes Lab level. They can be a Line Manager who will act as co-lead with the Team PO for overall delivery. In these cases, they will be responsible for overall tech delivery, line management & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output.. Others will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and deeper in focus.

Job Description

Senior Data Operations Engineer

Enterprise Risk Platform – Prudential & Analytics Role Profile DevOps Engineer

Agile Working Options: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

Location Leeds, West Yorkshire (Hybrid working – the role will require some office working in Leeds)

Salary - £70,929 - £78,810

About us

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!

About this opportunity

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers.

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.

Job Description

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

We're seeking curious engineers to work within our feature teams. You will support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We're looking for someone who wants to further develop their engineering skillset. We’ll support you to be able to be able to take on technical challenges and develop your understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented. If this excites you then you would be an asset to our team!

We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our platforms Analytics Lab who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

What You’d Get Involved With:

1. Data Platform Operations

· Operate and support GCP-based data platforms, particularly BigQuery environments

· Monitor platform performance, availability, and cost efficiency

· Ensure high availability and resilience of data systems

2. Pipeline Reliability & Support

· Maintain and support ETL/ELT pipelines using Composer (Airflow) and dbt

· Ensure data quality, completeness, and timeliness across pipelines

· Implement proactive monitoring and alerting for pipeline failures

3. Incident & Problem Management

· Lead investigation and resolution of production data incidents

· Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative fixes

· Participate in on-call rotations for critical systems

4. Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

· Manage infrastructure using Terraform on GCP

· Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Harness

· Work with Pub/Sub for event-driven data processing

5. Data Governance & Compliance

· Ensure adherence to regulatory and internal data governance policies

· Implement data lineage, auditing, and access controls

· Collaborate with risk, security, and compliance teams

6. Collaboration & Leadership

· Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices

· Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and platform teams

· Contribute to architectural decisions and platform enhancements

Key skills required:

There is no requirement to have experience with every technology listed, and we would be happy to provide any development opportunities.

Technical Skills

· Strong SQL expertise and experience working with BigQuery

· Hands-on experience with GCP services (BigQuery, Composer, Pub/Sub)

· Proficiency in Python and/or Java

· Experience with dbt for transformation workflows

· Familiarity with scheduling tools such as Tivoli

DevOps & Infrastructure

· Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness)

· Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

· Version control using Git

Operational Expertise

· Experience in data operations, production support, or SRE environments

· Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills

· Monitoring and alerting implementation experience

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)

· Experience in financial services or regulated environments

· Understanding of data governance, risk, and compliance frameworks

Desirable skills include:

· Strong focus on reliability, automation, and scalability

· Experience operating mission-critical data platforms

· Ability to bridge engineering and operational support

· Proactive mindset toward improving systems and processes

About working with 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

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.