Senior Data Operations Specialist in Bristol

**End Date**: Monday 09 February 2026

**Salary Range**: £72,702 - £80,780

**Flexible Working Options**: Hybrid Working, Job Share

**Location**: Bristol

**Hours**: Full-time

**Working Pattern**: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.

**About this opportunity...** Join the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) Platform, a cornerstone of our Consumer Relationships Business Unit, where we are redefining how Lloyds Banking Group delivers personalised, data-driven customer experiences at scale. As a Senior Data Operations Specialist, you will be embedded within a cross-functional product engineering team during a transformative phase of our cloud-first journey. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the operational backbone of our cloud-native data services and pipelines—ensuring they are robust, scalable, and optimised for high-volume, low-latency performance.

**What you’ll do...**

• Operate and optimise cloud-native data pipelines and services with a focus on performance, scalability, testability, and security.
• Apply **Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)** principles to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in high-throughput data environments.
• Leverage automation and orchestration tools to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks for build, release, and operations.
• Participate in design and implementation reviews, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.
• Read, understand, and write code in **Python, Java, Spark, or Terraform** to support automation and pipeline enhancements.
• Conduct holistic problem-solving across the stack—from data pipelines to CI/CD and DAG orchestration.
• Perform Level 1 triage for customer-impacting issues and escalate appropriately.
• Monitor live and pre-production systems for health and data quality; experience with building Dashboards with various dashboarding tools. Dynatrace and DSQL is beneficial.

This is not a hands-on data engineering role but requires strong technical acumen and operational leadership.

**What you’ll need...**

• **Experience**: Minimum **7+ years** in data operations, data engineering, or Data SRE roles, with demonstrable experience running cloud-based, high-volume, low-latency data pipelines at scale.
• **Cloud Skills**: Advanced hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), including cloud-native data services, orchestration, monitoring, and automation. Proven experience in **GCP-based data platforms**, including BigQuery, Dataflow, CloudSQL, Spanner, Pub Sub, Cloud composer and GKE.
• **Data Engineering**: Proficient in modern data tools and frameworks for building, operating, and optimising ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming data, and batch processing.
• **SRE & Automation**: Strong understanding of SRE principles, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and operational automation.
• **Data Literacy**: Ability to design, develop, and apply data and analytics experience to drive effective decision-making and foster a data-driven culture.
• **Values & Behaviours**: Demonstrates innovation, challenges existing processes, adopts new technologies, inspires others, embraces diverse viewpoints, and maintains a growth learning mindset.
• **(Bonus)** Experience in monitoring and managing production **AI/ML models**.

**About working for 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. 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

**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.

With 320 years under our belt, we’re used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you’ll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.