Data, Analytics & AI Engineering Lead

Lloyds Bank plc; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A generous pension contribution up to

Annual bonus

Share schemes

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Bank plc is seeking an Engineering Lead – Data, Analytics & AI in Bristol. The role focuses on defining the engineering roadmap, driving AI-enabled data products and modern data platforms to support reporting, ML and GenAI workloads.

The candidate will mentor teams, advance AI governance, and ensure security and privacy by design, while delivering scalable data solutions in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL and modern software practices.
• Experience with batch and streaming data solutions (Spark, Kafka, Flink).
• Knowledge of data warehouses, data lakes and lakehouse architectures.
• Understanding of MLOps, AI governance and GenAI patterns.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering roadmap with Product, Architecture, Data Science and business stakeholders.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across data, analytics and AI.
• Enable customer intelligence, personalisation, decisioning and conversational AI via data products.
• Design and implement reusable data products and analytics capabilities for reporting and ML workloads.
• Lead adoption of AI Engineering, MLOps and LLMOps across development and deployment pipelines.
• Champion security, privacy and governance by design.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability and developer productivity through platform engineering.
• Mentor and develop engineering teams to foster innovation and excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Python

SQL

Data architecture

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Communication skills

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Beam

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Lloyds Bank plc is seeking an Engineering Lead – Data, Analytics & AI in Bristol. The role focuses on defining the engineering roadmap, driving AI-enabled data products and modern data platforms to support reporting, ML and GenAI workloads.

The candidate will mentor teams, advance AI governance, and ensure security and privacy by design, while delivering scalable data solutions in a hybrid working environment.