Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer

End Date

Thursday 22 January 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Designs patterns, tooling, and templates to rapidly and efficiently deploy models into production. Scales AI/ML solutions on strategic infrastructure and integrating them into existing systems. Supports capability growth of self and others through coaching and/or management of a small team.

Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:

Leeds

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

THE OPPORTUNITY:

We’re looking for a strategic and technically minded Lead Data & AI scientist to join our Homes Platform AI Team.

As a Senior Data & AI Scientist, you will leverage AI and machine learning to gain insights, make predictions, and aid decision‑making. You will ensure ethical considerations and accuracy are upheld while delivering optimized models ready for production. Your work will contribute to solving complex business problems and improving operational efficiency.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver solutions.
• Collecting, processing, and analysing data from various sources and ensure ethical use of data in all projects.
• Performing statistical analysis to identify trends and patterns.
• Developing and implementing machine learning models and algorithms.
• Continuously improving models and processes for better performance.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Hands on development Experience in Modelling
• Advanced proficiency in Python (including libraries such as Num Py, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/Tensor Flow)
• Strong understanding of feature engineering, model selection, evaluation metrics, optimisation techniques and Gen AI.
• Ability to apply complex statistical methods and design experiments.
• Familiarity with GCP cloud environment for deploying ML solutions.
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non‑technical people.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Exposure to Generative AI and emerging AI technologies.
• Experience with MLOps tools (MLflow, Docker, CI/CD pipelines).
• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage, and analytics
• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes
• Experience of line management

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

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. 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.

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 to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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