{"id":2753114,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead","title":"Data & ML Platform Lead","company":{"id":449289,"name":"Lloyds Bank","domain":"lloydsbank.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lloydsbank-2","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Welcome to the Jungle","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":107304,"max":126240,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":168422},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Feast","optional":false},{"name":"Feature Store","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Google Cloud Run","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-17T00:12:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T23:53:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Join Curve, a pioneering fintech company, as a Data & ML Platform Lead. In this hands-on platform engineering role, you will lead a multidisciplinary team and be closely involved in complex architectural challenges. You will own the design and reliability of various data services and ensure the platform operates to bank-grade standards. Enjoy a generous holiday allowance, flexible working arrangements, family leave, health insurance, colleague offers, financial products, share plans, and a pension plan.\nMissions\nLead the team responsible for building and operating the infrastructure at the core of Curve’s business, including streaming and batch data ingestion, reverse-ETL, and real-time decisioning.\nOwn the design and reliability of Kafka-based decisioning services, data pipelines, orchestration, feature stores, and underlying cloud infrastructure, ensuring the platform operates to bank-grade standards.\nProvide technical leadership to engineers, set technical direction, delegate effectively, and develop engineers into owners of the systems they operate.\nProfil recherché\n - If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code\n- Experience building and operating real-time services as well as batch and streaming data pipelines\n- Experience designing safe deployment approaches including feature flags, shadow modes, staged rollouts and reversible releases\n- Strong experience operating orchestration platforms such as Airflow reliably in production\n- Deep production experience with streaming technologies, ideally Kafka, and event-driven architectures operating at scale\n- A track record of automating manual operational processes and building systems that are scalable, reliable and maintainable\n- Significant experience in data engineering, platform engineering or similar roles, including experience leading or providing sustained technical leadership to engineers\n- Strong leadership skills with the ability to set technical direction, delegate effectively and develop engineers into owners of the systems they operate\n- Experience designing reliable, observable platforms with clear SLAs, monitoring, alerting, load testing and capacity planning\n- Strong programming ability in Python and experience with at least one systems language, ideally Go\n- Strong understanding of operating technology within regulated environments, including audit trails, control evidencing, change governance and production systems with compliance implications\n- Experience deploying and operating ML systems in production, including feature stores, model serving or ML-driven decisioning systems\n- Proven experience designing and operating production systems on GCP, including technologies such as BigQuery, Managed Airflow, Cloud Run and Dataflow, or equivalent cloud infrastructure\n- Hands-on experience with Feast\n- Experience building or operating LLM and agentic AI workflows in production\n- Experience within financial crime, fraud, credit or risk decisioning environments\n- Experience integrating technology platforms with large banking organisations or banking vendor ecosystems\n- Experience with Snowplow\n- Experience supporting dbt from a platform or enablement perspective\n- Experience with load-testing frameworks for data-intensive systems\n- Experience within fintech, financial services, payments or retail banking\n- Experience building real-time decisioning systems with regulatory or financial consequences\n- Experience supporting high-volume transaction platforms as they scale","description_format":"text","description_chars":3757,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Mortgage Lending & Brokers"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T00:42:24Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-17T06:21:15+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":168422,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T01:23:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":713,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":449289},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=449289"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flloyds-bank-data-ml-platform-lead"}]}