Lead, Data & AI Platform Engineering

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape the data and AI ecosystem, guiding architecture and driving adoption of modern data and ML practices. You will mentor teams, align with Product and Architecture, and deliver scalable platforms that create measurable business value.

In this role you will partner across Data Science, Analytics and engineering to define roadmaps, raise engineering standards, and deliver customer-centric data products that power decisioning,

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, dimensional modelling and data product design.
• Experience designing data structures and models that support reporting, self-service analytics, ML and AI use cases.
• Understanding GenAI architecture patterns including vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Knowledge of MLOps, model lifecycle management, observability and AI governance practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS and associated platform services.
• Strong understanding of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation 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, machine learning 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, continuous learning and engineering excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

SQL

Spark

Kafka

Kubernetes

MLOps

GenAI architectures

Data modelling

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape the data and AI ecosystem, guiding architecture and driving adoption of modern data and ML practices. You will mentor teams, align with Product and Architecture, and deliver scalable platforms that create measurable business value.

In this role you will partner across Data Science, Analytics and engineering to define roadmaps, raise engineering standards, and deliver customer-centric data products that power decisioning,