Senior Pensions Technical Lead - London, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Description

London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home.

Salary & Benefits:
£100,657 to £130,262 per annum (experience dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office.

We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events.

Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds.

Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services.

As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services.

This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm.

Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience.

Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached.

Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks.

Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps.

Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications.

Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained.
Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures.
Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases
Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience.
Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior collaborators.

We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position.

Experience as a Senior Lead Database Administrator, including exposure to Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable)
Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5)
Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies
Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild.
Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures
Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory

Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys.

Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery.
Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW)

Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity.

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