Lloyds Banking Group
Lead Data Scientist
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Lead Data Scientist
JOB TITLE: Lead Data & AI Scientist (BCB)
SALARY
Competitive* will be discussed at interview stage
LOCATION(S)
London or Edinburgh
HOURS
Full time
WORKING PATTERN
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh office.
About this Opportunity
In Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) we're developing our client value proposition, shaping our digital and data strategy, and driving commercial growth initiatives.
As a Lead Data & AI Scientist, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering ground breaking AI solutions that solve complex business challenges for BCB. From predictive and generative AI to agentic systems, you'll lead initiatives that transform digital experiences, automate processes, and unlock data-driven insights for colleagues and clients.
You'll provide technical leadership, define our capability roadmap, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable models. This role also involves mentoring the Data Science & AI team, encouraging knowledge sharing, and embedding industry guidelines.
What you'll be doing
- Conceptualise and lead technology-based solutions that solve complex business problems. Improve digital experiences, automate processes, and provide data-driven insights to support colleague and client journeys.
- Shape and define the capability roadmap for Data & AI, including cloud-native solutions and scalable architectures.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring for data scientists and engineers.
- Ensure rigorous quality assurance in model development, testing, and deployment.
- Develop proofs-of-concept to demonstrate new capabilities and accelerate adoption.
- Partner with colleagues to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable AI solutions.
- Advocate for responsible AI practices and compliance with governance frameworks.
- Guide the team in solving complex AI use cases and improving existing approaches.
- Contribute to the design of training curricula and professional development paths for the Data & AI community.
- Drive measurable business outcomes through AI solutions aligned to strategic priorities.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with Group Data & AI standards.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Why join us?
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.
What we're looking for?
- Set the strategic direction for Data & AI across BCB, aligning investment and priorities with business outcomes
- Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-level AI solutions across client journeys, automation, and insight generation
- Own the Data & AI capability roadmap, ensuring scalable, cloud-based architectures that support long-term growth
- Provide technical and thought leadership to the Data Science & AI team, building capability and setting engineering standards
- Oversee the full lifecycle of AI solutions, ensuring robust development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Partner with senior leaders to shape high-value AI use cases and influence decision-making at leadership level
- Embed responsible AI practices, ensuring all solutions meet governance, risk, and regulatory requirements
- Drive measurable commercial and operational outcomes, with clear accountability for impact, adoption, and value delivered
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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 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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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 for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location