Your role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Data Business Intelligence team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing data warehouses, particularly within the financial market, and will be proficient in the Microsoft stack and SQL Server 2016 and higher. This role ensures that the data solutions align with the overall data warehouse architecture. You will be reporting to the NL Data Engineering Lead within the Data department.
Your responsibilities
As SRE at Lloyds Bank, you'll primarily focus on the following responsibilties:
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our on-premise data warehouse.
- Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and other stakeholders to optimize data workflows and processes.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
- Perform regular system updates, patches, and performance tuning.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data warehouse infrastructure and applications.
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for critical systems.
Your team
This role is within our Data Business Intelligence team. You will be reporting to the NL Data Engineering Lead within the Data department.
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About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
You and your experience
Experience and Knowledge
- Minimum 3-5 years of working experience as IT & Business Analyst
- Experienced with 3 or more of technology aspects such as: o Experience with IT infrastructure management (i.e. cloud setup, traditional datacentre setup, outsourcing model)
- Proven longstanding experience with the Microsoft stack, including SQL Server 2016 (or above) and development tools such as Visual Studio, versioning, TFS, and Urban Code.
- Experience with data warehouse testing.
- Experience with data warehouse management and optimization.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or similar.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Web Technologies (e.g. HTML, XML, web services, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of the Microsoft stack, including SQL Server 2016 and higher.
- Strong knowledge of project management disciplines, standards, processes and governance, certified qualification an advantage.
- Advanced understanding of data warehouse architecture, the ETL process, data warehouse concepts (Kimball method), and end-to-end reporting solutions.
- Knowledge of financial market data and applications is a plus.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) is a plus.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Preferred: certification in Microsoft SQL Server or related technologies.
Skills and Capabilities
- Fluency in Dutch and English is essential.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Able to implement, test and support solutions across the full software development lifecycle
- Able to work in a multi supplier environment, vendors, managing across teams, and working directly with business
- Acting as Agile Technical Product Owner on behalf of the Business Users o Iterative development methodologies (e.g., RUP, Agile, Scrum)
- Able to combine project management standards with high paced transformational change environment.
- Strong organizational/planning skills with the ability to coordinate and organize workloads in a structured way, ability to work with tight deadlines.
- Striving for continuous improvement of existing processes and practices.
- Strong empathy for the experience and journeys of our customers and business introducers.
- Eagerness to be part of a team that drives innovation in the financial services sector paired with personal drive to explore new technologies and trends.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills to colleagues at all levels.
- Able to draw upon strong influencing and negotiation skills in order to manage senior stakeholders’ needs and expectations.
- Displays social competencies in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
What's in it for you?
On top of being part of a great group of colleagues we offer you a position for 32 to 40 hours a week. This aligns with a compensation package in line with the market and excellent secondary employee benefits, including:
- 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- We want you to be healthy, so support you in joining a gym of your choosing through our sponsored (bedrijfs-) Fitness
- Get to know everyone in person and join the quarterly Connection Events
We also value your work-life balance, so offer;
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
- Hybrid working; you can work from anywhere, even work from another country within the EU
- And provide you with a home office set up
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send this to: recruitment@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website.
We hope to meet you soon!