Data, Analytics & AI Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A generous pension contribution up to

15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays)

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Engineering Lead for Data, Analytics & AI in Bristol. You will shape the data and AI ecosystem, leading engineering teams, defining roadmaps and driving modern data, analytics and AI practices across the organization.

The role focuses on delivering scalable data products, architecture decisions and responsible AI governance, with a hybrid work pattern and strong collaboration with product, architecture and data science teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience building large-scale batch and streaming data solutions using Spark, Kafka, Flink, Beam or equivalent.
• Deep knowledge of modern data architectures including data warehouses, data lakes and lakehouse platforms.
• Strong understanding of analytical data modelling and data product design.
• Experience designing data structures and models that support reporting and AI use cases.
• Understanding of GenAI architecture patterns including vector databases and LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Knowledge of MLOps, model lifecycle management and AI governance practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS and platform services.
• Strong understanding of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering roadmap in partnership with Product, Architecture, Data Science and business stakeholders.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across data, analytics and AI solutions.
• Enable customer intelligence, personalisation, decisioning and conversational AI use cases through modern data products and data platforms.
• Design and implement reusable data products, semantic models and analytics capabilities that support reporting, ML and GenAI workloads.
• Drive adoption of AI Engineering, MLOps and LLMOps best practices across development, deployment, monitoring and governance.
• Champion security, resilience, privacy, Responsible AI and governance by design.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability and developer productivity through automation and platform engineering.
• Mentor, coach and develop engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Beam

Data platforms

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Engineering Lead for Data, Analytics & AI in Bristol. You will shape the data and AI ecosystem, leading engineering teams, defining roadmaps and driving modern data, analytics and AI practices across the organization.

The role focuses on delivering scalable data products, architecture decisions and responsible AI governance, with a hybrid work pattern and strong collaboration with product, architecture and data science teams.