Principal Data Engineer

End Date

Tuesday 29 September 2026

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

The Data Engineer will work alongside the Team Product Owner in a Feature Team managing delivery by leading others. They will operate as co-leader with the Team PO with involvement in decision making and planning of Product roadmap. In some cases, this role will be an Individual Contributor operating at Lab rather than feature team level.

Job Description

• Job Title: Engineering Leader – Data (Lloyds Technology Centre)
  Location: Hyderabad, India (Hybrid: at least 2 days/week in office)
  Experience: 15+ years

  About Lloyds Technology Centre

  Lloyds Technology Centre is the strategic technology hub for Lloyds Banking Group, enabling digital transformation and innovation across the banking ecosystem. Our mission is to build secure, scalable, and data-driven solutions that empower millions of customers and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

  Role Overview

  Own the delivery and operation of data products and platforms across multiple squads, with end‑to‑end accountability for outcomes, quality, and reliability. Establish reusable, metadata‑driven engineering patterns; elevate semantic models, KPI/metrics, and BI consumption; and build an AI‑ready foundation (knowledge layers, knowledge graphs, semantic models) that accelerates analytics and machine learning use‑cases across the organisation.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Delivery ownership: Define roadmaps, OKRs, and release plans; oversee scope, estimation, risk, and stakeholder communication; ensure on‑time, on‑budget, quality delivery across squads.

  • Team ownership & leadership: Build and lead high‑performing teams (hiring, coaching, performance management); set coding standards, DoR/DoD, working agreements, and succession plans.

  • Engineering patterns at scale: Establish factory‑mode delivery via inner‑sourced, reusable frameworks (ingestion, transform, quality, lineage, observability) and golden paths with strong documentation

  • Semantic layer & metrics: Define and govern enterprise semantic models, KPI/metric definitions, conformed dimensions, metric stores, and query‑ready views to enable consistent BI and self‑serve analytics.

  • AI readiness & knowledge layers: Shape data for ML/GenAI—ontologies, knowledge graphs, feature/embedding strategies, and patterns that make the platform AI‑ready by design.

  • Data modelling & performance: Guide dimensional (star/snowflake) and Data Vault 2.0 modelling; set standards for physical design on cloud warehouses (par

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