JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Lead Engineer (EDP) – Data Transformation & Modelling Lab
SALARY: £90,440 – £106,400 (Manchester) | £104,686 – £123,160 (London)
LOCATION(S): Manchester or London
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 our Manchester or London office.

You’ll be joining the Data Transformation & Modelling Lab, a key part of our Data & Machine Learning Platform. The Lab plays a central role in shaping the bank ’ s future data landscape by:

• Designing and maintaining the Group Data Model, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with enterprise-wide data standards.
• Building high-quality data products that serve as trusted, reusable assets across the organisation.
• Developing toolkits and accelerators to enable rapid, secure, and scalable data migration to Google Cloud Platform ( BigQuery ).
• Underpinning our strategy for Generative AI and Agentic AI, by ensuring data is well-modelled, governed, and accessible for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
• We work in agile, cross-functional teams following Scrum principles — focused on iterative delivery, continuous improvement, and close collaboration with stakeholders.
• As a Lead Engineer, you ’ ll help define technical direction, mentor engineers, and deliver the foundational data capabilities that power the bank ’ s digital and AI-driven future

What you’ll do

• Designing and evolving conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned to business domains and data mesh principles.
• Collaborating with domain teams to define and deliver high-quality, reusable data products on BigQuery .
• Leading the transformation of legacy data models from on-premise platforms to cloud-native equivalents.
• Ensuring data models are optimised for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency in BigQuery .
• Supporting the development of modelling standards, patterns, and best practices across the engineering community.
• Partnering with data architects, engineers, and product owners to align modelling with enterprise architecture and strategic goals.
• Mentoring junior engineers and modellers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence