Lloyds Banking Group
Principal Engineer - AI Productivity Lab
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Principal Engineer - AI Productivity Lab
Salary: £84,624 - £105,780 depending on location and experience
Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Manchester
Working Pattern: Hybrid, with at least 40% of the time spent at the office.
About this Opportunity
We are seeking Principal Engineers to join our new AI Productivity Lab. The Lab aims to accelerate internal AI-driven employee productivity and process automation using the latest agentic co-working technologies.
You will provide hands-on technical leadership for building domain-specific agents and tooling, and for developing internal knowledge and skills repositories that enable safe, repeatable automation aligned to business area operating procedures.
Working with the Head of the Lab, you will execute agentic coworking initiatives with targeted business areas, partnering with line-of-business champions to embed agents into team processes, SOPs, and tooling, and to realize and measure benefits.
You will be working within the Data & AI Team of the Chief Technology Office (CTO), where we define and lead the Group's Data and AI technology strategy, serve as the Group's design authority for Data and AI, and inspire, develop, and incubate new AI-driven products, capabilities, and ways of working through applied research and product discovery.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering of coworking solutions (agents, tools, and automations) for priority business areas, taking designs from prototype to operational MVP.
- Design and build reusable capabilities for the Lab's coworking platform and repository (skills, tools, and operating procedure assets) with a clear path to adoption.
- Apply hands-on experience of agentic coding and/or coworking tools and the open-source ecosystem to evaluate options, recommend approaches, and accelerate delivery.
- Partner with business stakeholders and line-of-business champions to shape use cases, embed solutions into SOPs, and measure outcomes.
- Coach and mentor engineers through technical leadership, code review, and constructive feedback, and engage senior stakeholders on technical direction.
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Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose.
What You'll Need
- Proven experience leading the delivery of technology solutions to business areas in complex production environments, with ownership of business outcomes.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of solutions architecture, software engineering, and business process automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with agentic coding and/or coworking technology and ecosystem (e.g., Claude Code and/or Cowork, OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot).
- Strong understanding of operational processes and risk management (Financial Services preferred).
- Ability to influence stakeholders and guide teams through ambiguity, translating productivity opportunities into clear technical direction and MVPs.
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Desirable:
- Expertise in knowledge management, enterprise ontology, and knowledge graph technology.
- Business process optimization experience (e.g., Business Process Modelling, Lean Six Sigma).
- Experience with applied research / experimentation.
- Advanced degree (MSc, PhD) in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related subject.
About Working for Us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization 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 organizations 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 for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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