Senior Responsible AI Lead — Hybrid, Cloud AI Agents

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

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Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Manchester seeks a hands-on Responsible AI Lead to steer a cross-functional lab focused on telephony and digital platforms. You will shape next-gen AI capabilities, integrating advanced software engineering with Generative AI in a cloud-native setup.

You will lead multiple teams, set technical direction, and ensure safety, security, and scalability while delivering outcomes at pace in a regulated environment. This hybrid role requires strong leadership and technical depth.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java, Python and TypeScript, with experience delivering production services (APIs, event-driven systems, microservices), ideally on GCP.
• Proven technical leadership of large, multi-team deliveries - setting strategy, making sound architectural decisions and enabling teams to deliver at pace.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI: building LLM-powered applications/agents, tool use, orchestration, retrieval (RAG), prompt and safety engineering, evaluation and telemetry.
• Proficient knowledge of cloud-native engineering: containers (GKE/Cloud Run), Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, automated QA, observability, performance, incidents.
• Solid knowledge of security, privacy and compliance in regulated environments; able to work with Risk, Security and Legal teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts into clear, outcome-focused narratives.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and technical direction for agentic AI services, working with Engineering, Product & Architecture teams.
• Lead, develop and coach multiple teams, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
• Design and deliver AI Agents using Vertex AI, Cloud Run/GKE, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, BigQuery and IAM, integrating with enterprise systems.
• Achieve quality: CI/CD, automated testing, performance testing, SRE practices, and observability.
• Engineer for safety, security and cost-effectiveness with guardrails, secrets management, IAM scoping and FinOps.
• Lead full lifecycle (design, build, run, iterate) ensuring resilience and scalability.
• Provide reusable components and templates, lead vendor interactions, and communicate with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Python

TypeScript

GCP

Leadership

Tools

Vertex AI

GKE

Cloud Run

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group in Manchester seeks a hands-on Responsible AI Lead to steer a cross-functional lab focused on telephony and digital platforms. You will shape next-gen AI capabilities, integrating advanced software engineering with Generative AI in a cloud-native setup.

You will lead multiple teams, set technical direction, and ensure safety, security, and scalability while delivering outcomes at pace in a regulated environment. This hybrid role requires strong leadership and technical depth.