Lloyds Banking Group
ML/AI Engineer
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ML/AI Engineer
End Date Sunday 28 June 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
Job Title
ML/AI Engineer
Salary
£70,929 - £85,000 per annum
Location
Manchester
Hours
Full-time – 35 hours
Working Pattern
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Manchester office.
About this opportunity…
Exciting opportunity for a hands-on ML/AI Engineer to join our Data & AI Engineering team. You’ll build, automate, and maintain scalable systems that support the full machine learning lifecycle. You will lead Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation (including Harness), GPU optimisation, and large‑scale model deployment, owning the path from code commit to reliable, monitored production services
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI by embedding fairness, transparency, and accountability at the heart of innovation. You’ll join us at an exciting time as we move into the next phase of our transformation. We’re looking for curious, passionate engineers who thrive on innovation and want to make a real impact.
About us…
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.
What you’ll do…
- Compose, build, and operate production‑grade Kubernetes clusters for high‑volume model inference and scheduled training jobs.
- Configure autoscaling, resource quotas, GPU/CPU node pools, service mesh, Helm charts, and custom operators to meet reliability and efficiency targets.
- Implement GitOps workflows for environment configuration and application releases.
- Build CI/CD pipelines in Harness (or equivalent) to automate build, test, model packaging, and deployment across environments (dev / pre‑prod / prod).
- Enable progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) and rollback strategies, integrating quality gates, unit/integration tests, and model‑evaluation checks.
- Standardise pipelines for continuous training (CT) and continuous monitoring (CM) to keep models fresh and safe in production.
- Deploy and tune GPU‑backed inference services (e.g., A100), optimise CUDA environments, and leverage TensorRT where appropriate.
- Operate scalable serving frameworks (NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe) with attention to latency, efficiency, resilience, and cost.
- Implement end‑to‑end observability for models and pipelines: drift, data quality, fairness signals, latency, GPU utilisation, error budgets, and SLOs/SLIs via Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
- Establish actionable alerting and runbooks for on‑call operations; drive incident reviews and reliability improvements.
- Operate a model registry (e.g., MLflow) with experiment tracking, versioning, lineage, and environment‑specific artefacts.
- Enforce audit readiness: model cards, reproducible builds, provenance, and controlled promotion between stages
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What you’ll need…
- Strong Python for automation, tooling, and service development.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, operators, node‑pool management, and autoscaling.
- CI/CD expertise having hands‑on experience with Harness (or similar) building multi‑stage pipelines; experience with GitOps, artefact repositories, and environment promotion.
- Practical experience with CUDA, TensorRT, Triton, TorchServe, and GPU scheduling/optimisation.
- Proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace defining SLIs/SLOs and alert thresholds for ML systems.
- Experience operating MLflow (or equivalent) for experiment tracking, model bundling, and deployments.
- Expert use of Git, branching models, protected merges, and code‑review workflows.
It would be great if you had any of the following…
- Experience with GCP (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) and Vertex AI (Endpoints, Pipelines, Model Monitoring, Feature Store).
- Hooks for prompt/version management, offline/online evaluation, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows (e.g., RLHF) to enable continuous improvement.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool interoperability, plus Google ADK, LangGraph/LangChain for agent orchestration and multi‑agent patterns.
- Ray, Kubeflow, or similar frameworks.
- Experience embedding controls, audit evidence, and governance in regulated environments.
- Experience with GPU efficiency, autoscaling strategies, and workload right‑sizing.
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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
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We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
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.
With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.
Should you wish to contact us for any reason, please email us at: careers@lloydsbanking.com
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