Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Flexible holidays

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer in Manchester. You will join the Agentic Orchestration feature team within the Agentic Automation Lab, helping design, develop and scale enterprise-grade agentic AI capabilities that empower teams across the Group to deliver innovative customer-focused solutions.

You will work with engineers, architects and product teams to build secure, scalable AI services, contribute to standards and strategies, and drive adoption of AI

Qualifications

• Strong Python software engineering skills with experience delivering secure, scalable, production-grade apps and services.
• Experience designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions, including agentic workflows and orchestration patterns.
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native systems, platforms, and services.
• Strong software engineering practices including testing, CI/CD and lifecycle management.
• Strong critical thinking with ability to analyze complex technical challenges and deliver practical solutions.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, architecture and product teams.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) including prompting, evaluation and fine-tuning.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AI observability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve platform and system architectures for agentic AI services and orchestration capabilities.
• Develop and deliver production-grade software and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Build and enhance AI-powered services and agentic workflows for adoption across the Group.
• Partner with engineers, architects and product teams to accelerate AI-enabled solutions.
• Contribute to engineering standards, software lifecycle practices and technical strategy.
• Drive innovation through experimentation and adoption of emerging AI technologies.

Skills

Python

Agentic AI

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Critical Thinking

Collaboration

GCP

LLMs

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Job Description

End Date Wednesday 14 October 2026

Salary Range £69,624 - £104,436

We support flexible working – Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Salary: £69,624 - £87,030

LOCATION(S): Manchester

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

As an Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer, you'll join the Agentic Orchestration feature team within the Agentic Automation Lab, part of the Agentic & AI Services Platform in Enabling Services. Working at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape, you'll help design, develop and scale enterprise-grade agentic AI capabilities that enable teams across Lloyds Banking Group to deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions. You'll work closely with engineers, architects and product teams to build secure, scalable and resilient AI services that support a broad range of business use cases.

Day to day, you'll:

• Design and evolve platform and system architectures for agentic AI services and orchestration capabilities.
• Develop and deliver high-quality, production-grade software and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Build and enhance AI-powered services, agentic workflows and platform capabilities that enable adoption across the Group.
• Partner with engineers, architects and product teams to accelerate the delivery of AI-enabled solutions.
• Contribute to engineering standards, software lifecycle practices and technical strategy.
• Drive innovation through experimentation, continuous improvement and the adoption of emerging AI technologies.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're transforming at pace and investing heavily in our people, data and technology to help us deliver better outcomes for our 28 million customers. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of AI at Lloyds Banking Group, working on complex engineering challenges and building platform capabilities that enable innovation across the organisation. If you're passionate about engineering excellence, modern software development and the potential of AI to solve real-world problems, we'd love to hear from you.

Fair and inclusive work environment

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

What you'll need

• Strong Python software engineering skills, with proven experience designing, developing and delivering secure, scalable, production-grade applications and services.
• Experience designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions, including agentic workflows, tool integration, orchestration patterns and multi-agent architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-native systems, platforms and services.
• Strong Software Engineering capability with experience applying modern engineering practices including testing, CI/CD and software lifecycle management.
• Strong Critical Thinking skills, with the ability to analyse complex technical challenges, evaluate trade-offs and deliver practical solutions.
• Strong Collaboration skills, building effective partnerships across engineering, architecture and product teams to deliver shared outcomes.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompting, evaluation and fine-tuning approaches.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AI observability, monitoring or evaluation frameworks.

Benefits

• 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

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.

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