Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer to design and implement AI solutions, ensuring ethical considerations while optimizing performance. This role involves collaboration across teams, data analysis, and model development. Candidates should have advanced Python skills, experience with AI technologies, and strong communication skills. The role offers a salary range of £72,702 - £80,780 with hybrid working options and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience with Generative AI and emerging AI technologies.
• Experience with MLOps tools.
• Insights into data management and analytics.
• Experience in regulatory change advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions.
• Process and analyze data, ensuring ethical use.
• Perform statistical analysis to identify trends.
• Develop and implement machine learning models.
• Continuously improve models and processes.

Skills

Hands on development Experience in Modelling

Advanced proficiency in Python

Strong understanding of feature engineering

Statistical methods application

Familiarity with GCP cloud

Excellent communication skills

Tools

NumPy

Pandas

scikit-learn

PyTorch/TensorFlow

MLflow

Docker

Job description

End Date

Thursday 22 January 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Designs patterns, tooling, and templates to rapidly and efficiently deploy models into production. Scales AI/ML solutions on strategic infrastructure and integrating them into existing systems. Supports capability growth of self and others through coaching and/or management of a small team.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:

We’re looking for a strategic and technically minded Lead Data & AI scientist to join our Homes Platform AI Team.

As a Senior Data & AI Scientist, you will leverage AI and machine learning to gain insights, make predictions, and aid decision‑making. You will ensure ethical considerations and accuracy are upheld while delivering optimized models ready for production. Your work will contribute to solving complex business problems and improving operational efficiency.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver solutions.
• Collecting, processing, and analysing data from various sources and ensure ethical use of data in all projects.
• Performing statistical analysis to identify trends and patterns.
• Developing and implementing machine learning models and algorithms.
• Continuously improving models and processes for better performance.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Hands on development Experience in Modelling
• Advanced proficiency in Python (including libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow)
• Strong understanding of feature engineering, model selection, evaluation metrics, optimisation techniques and Gen AI.
• Ability to apply complex statistical methods and design experiments.
• Familiarity with GCP cloud environment for deploying ML solutions.
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non‑technical people.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Exposure to Generative AI and emerging AI technologies.
• Experience with MLOps tools (MLflow, Docker, CI/CD pipelines).
• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage, and analytics
• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes
• Experience of line management

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

About working for us

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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.