Lead Engineer - Advanced AI Engineering

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking Lead Engineers to join our Advanced AI Engineering team. You will combine applied research and solution development to create effective AI business solutions, building MVPs that can scale across the Group.

You will work in the Data & AI Unit of the CTO, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and ensuring reliability, security and governance in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience engineering technology solutions in complex environments and supporting production operations.
• Applied AI/ML and GenAI experience with knowledge of patterns (RAG, tool use, guardrails, evaluation, agents).
• Experience delivering technology solutions in regulated industries (financial services preferred).

Responsibilities

• Support ideation activities with team members and stakeholders to explore challenges and opportunities.
• Evaluate AI methods and technologies, conduct experiments and build proofs-of-concept.
• Develop operational MVPs and support their delivery to business platforms and engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders on technical direction.
• Work in teams using agile practices and modern SDLC tooling.

Skills

Advanced AI

GenAI

RAG patterns

Agile practices

SDLC tooling

Mentoring

Stakeholder alignment

Regulated environment

Security & risk

Production support

Tools

Enterprise Architecture

Job description

We are looking for Lead Engineers to join our new Advanced AI Engineering team. You will combine applied research and solution development to create effective solutions to critical AI business challenges, building operational MVPs that our engineering teams can scale out across the Group's business areas. You will be working within the Data & AI Unit of the Chief Technology Office (CTO), where we define and lead the Group's Data and AI technology strategy, serve as the Group's design authority for Data and AI, and inspire, develop and incubate new AI-driven products, capabilities and ways of working through applied research and product discovery. These are hands-on roles, working at the forefront of Agentic AI adoption, which will draw upon your curiosity and problem-solving abilities, your experience building and supporting technology solutions within production environments, and your knowledge of GenAI technology. Day to day, you will:

• Support ideation activities, working with team members and business stakeholders to explore the art of the possible and identify areas of challenge and opportunity
• Evaluate AI methods and technologies, conducting experiments and building proof-of-concepts
• Develop operational MVPs and support their delivery to business platforms and engineering teams
• Proven experience engineering technology solutions in complex environments and supporting production operations
• Applied AI/ML and GenAI experience with knowledge of established patterns (RAG, tool use, guardrails, evaluation, agents) and an ability to evaluate tools and approaches
• Experience of working in teams employing agile practices and using modern SDLC tooling
• A solid understanding of requirements for managing operational and AI risk in a regulated environment, including reliability, security, safety and explainability
• Ability to collaborate as part of a high-performing engineering team - mentoring and supporting others and engaging stakeholders on technical direction

Desirable

• Experience delivering technology solutions in regulated industries (financial services preferred)
• Experience of research, either in industry or as part of an advanced degree
• Experience developing technology solutions for customer-facing platforms at scale (digital apps, contact centre/voice, colleague tooling)
• Experience of partnering with Enterprise Architecture functions

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.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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