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JOB TITLE: AI Engineering Manager - Tech and Tooling
SALARY: £84,051 - £93,390
LOCATION(S): Halifax, Edinburgh, Leeds, Newport
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 this OpportunityAn excellent opportunity for a highly motivated candidate to join the newly established Markets & AI Modelling team within the Model Risk Office [MRO] at Lloyds Banking Group. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic and constantly evolving AI team, providing considerable scope for personal and professional development.
MRO will act as the front door for the business to advance their AI ambitions, requiring excellent collaboration with our CCOR teams (e.g., Data Risks, Cyber and Security, Supplier Management, Conduct).
You’ll join a dedicated team responsible for the development, implementation, and support of AI/GenAI tooling to enable scalable, efficient, and reliable validation and risk oversight.
What you’ll be doing:
Lead the technical delivery of GenAI validation tooling, including planning development sprints, breaking down product requirements into technical tasks, and coordinating development work.
Design and develop reusable platform components and frameworks for GenAI validation, testing, and monitoring.
Build prototype pipelines and evaluation frameworks to support testing and validation of GenAI models across multiple use cases.
Act as the lead developer for selected projects, delivering end-to-end solutions from architecture design through implementation.
Review code and guide developers to ensure engineering quality and consistency across the tooling platform.
Collaborate with validation and risk oversight teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
Monitor emerging technologies (e.g., LLMOps tooling, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks) to continuously improve the validation tooling environment.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for:
·3+ years of professional experience developing or validating AI/ML or GenAI systems in a production or regulated environment.
·A degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative field.
·Strong Python programming experience building data or AI applications.
·Experience developing GenAI systems using LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, or similar).
Experience working with LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks.
·Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS.
And any of these would be great:Experience building RAG pipelines or agent-based AI systems.
Familiarity with cloud AI platforms such as GCP Vertex AI or similar.
Experience developing backend services or APIs for AI or data applications.
Experience building user interfaces or dashboards for AI or data applications.
Experience working in regulated environments or familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as EU AI Act, GDPR, or SS1/23.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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 make an impact? 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.
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Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
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