Lead Software Engineer

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting transformation journey, modernising regulatory reporting, risk analytics, and model-ready data through investment in people, data, and cloud technology!

In this role, you'll lead high-performing engineering teams to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable data services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You'll set strong engineering standards, modernise legacy analytics platforms, and translate complex prudential risk requirements into well-designed, cloud-native solutions!

This is a great opportunity for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of data engineering and software engineering and enjoys solving complex problems in a regulated UK banking environment.

What you'll do

• Translate business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Own engineering plans and delivery within Agile teams.
• Drive engineering decisions across modern cloud engineering stack.
• Embed CI/CD and quality gates and champion data engineering excellence.
• Partner across DevOps, QA, Security and Product.

• Proven data engineering experience including designing data models, normalisation, and entity relationship for analytics at scale.
• Hands-on building ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestrations (ideally Airflow/Cloud Composer) on GCP.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control (Git/GitHub), PR discipline, code reviews, automated testing (unit/integration), and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering and service development; writing clean, efficient, well-structured code.
• Practical data governance mentality: access controls, lineage, cataloguing, and data quality embedded into delivery.
• Experience in a regulated environment (banking/financial services ideal) and familiarity with prudential/regulatory data needs (e.g., Basel III, CRD IV).
• People leadership: coaching engineers, setting standards, aligning teams around outcomes, and creating momentum.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with GKE/Kubernetes (containerising and operating services) and Cloud Storage patterns.
• Product knowledge within Retail / Commercial bank and the products / tooling in place currently to allow for discussions on architecture design and migration of data.
• Experience with AI-enabled software development and engineering.
• Familiarity with data product thinking (domains, contracts, SLAs/SLOs).
• Observability for data systems (e.g., metrics, alerting, lineage, anomaly detection).
• Performance tuning in BigQuery (partitioning, clustering, materialized views).
• Experience modernising legacy analytics codebases into cloud-native pipelines.

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose., 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 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 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.