AI Governance & Production Lead

HSBC Holdings plc; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for UK employees

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Pension scheme with employer contribu

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an AI Technical Lead to shape the design and delivery of intelligent governance solutions across the group. You will combine hands-on AI engineering with scalable architecture to advance responsible AI practices and governance at scale.

Based in the UK, you’ll lead cross‑functional teams, align product priorities with governance requirements, and integrate AI capabilities into HSBC’s enterprise ecosystem, ensuring robust security, privacy, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI engineering experience with production use of LLMs and AI agents.
• Proven leadership in complex enterprise environments and technical design reviews.
• Experience with responsible AI, governance, privacy, security, and auditability.
• Strong Python and API development, testing, and production observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of AI governance capabilities, translating product priorities and governance requirements into scalable solutions.
• Build and deploy AI-powered applications, using LLMs, AI agents, retrieval techniques, workflow orchestration, APIs and enterprise services.
• Develop the AI governance knowledge graph and semantic model, connecting governance concepts, data, policies, controls, relationships and workflow context.
• Integrate AI solutions with HSBC’s technology ecosystem, including the Group AI Platform and reporting layers.
• Ensure production quality and responsible operation, covering testing, security, privacy, reliability, performance, cost, human oversight, traceability and auditability.

Skills

AI engineering

Python

API development

CI/CD

Production observability

Technical leadership

System integration

Responsible AI

Governance

Tools

LangGraph

Job description

HSBC is seeking an AI Technical Lead to shape the design and delivery of intelligent governance solutions across the group. You will combine hands-on AI engineering with scalable architecture to advance responsible AI practices and governance at scale.

Based in the UK, you’ll lead cross‑functional teams, align product priorities with governance requirements, and integrate AI capabilities into HSBC’s enterprise ecosystem, ensuring robust security, privacy, and operational excellence.