Data Engineer - Compliance Engineering in Edinburgh

End Date: Thursday 06 August 2026

Salary Range: £36,224 - £38,130

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

This is a full-time role based in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds or Manchester.

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours a week – Monday to Friday

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity: As a Data Engineer you’ll focus on assisting in the design, development, and maintenance of Data Product pipelines, gaining practical experience whilst working under the guidance of senior data engineers.

About the Role: We’re transforming how security and compliance are engineered across Lloyds Banking Group—leveraging data, automation and modern architectures to protect our customers at scale. Within the Chief Security Office, the Security Data & AI Lab is building next-generation monitoring and compliance capabilities that move beyond traditional controls towards continuous assurance driven by data insights. As a Data Engineer, you’ll join a growing engineering team contributing to the development of regulatory security monitoring solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to build your skills at the intersection of security, data and modern engineering practices, working on real-world challenges at enterprise scale.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Support the development and improvement of regulatory security monitoring and compliance capabilities, helping ensure controls are effective and scalable.
• Contribute to security telemetry and monitoring solutions (including database activity monitoring) to support detection and regulatory requirements.
• Assist in developing data ingestion pipelines and monitoring use cases, working with structured and unstructured data sources.
• Support the automation of control monitoring and evidencing, helping enable continuous compliance.
• Work closely with engineers and security specialists to deliver reliable and high-quality services.
• Learn and apply modern engineering practices such as automation, testing and version control.
• Develop and maintain user documentation to support team collaboration.
• Continuously develop your knowledge of security, data engineering and compliance tooling.

Why Lloyds Banking Group: We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need: We’re looking for someone who is curious, motivated and keen to build a career in security engineering and data-driven compliance. You might already have some experience, or be looking to deepen your technical skills in a supportive, engineering-focused environment.

You’ll bring:

• A foundational understanding of technology, data or security concepts.
• Interest in security monitoring, logging or compliance.
• A willingness to learn about data pipelines, automation and modern engineering approaches.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a structured approach to learning.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a team.
• Exposure to scripting or programming (e.g. Python, SQL or similar).

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Awareness of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• At least 1 years’ experience of working with security concepts or regulatory monitoring controls.
• Exposure to Agile or collaborative ways of working.
• Interest in how automation and AI can be applied to improve security and compliance.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

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. 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 performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)

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.