Principal Engineer - AI Productivity Lab

Job Title

Principal Engineer - AI Productivity Lab (Band F)

Salary

£92,701- £169,403, depending on location and experience

Location

Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester

Working Pattern

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office location.

About this Opportunity

We are looking for Principal Engineers to join our new AI Productivity Lab. The purpose of the Lab is to accelerate internal AI-driven employee productivity and process automation using the latest agentic coworking 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 realise and measure benefits. You will be working within the Data & AI Unit 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, you will

• 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

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

Desirable

• Expertise in knowledge management, enterprise ontology and knowledge graph technology
• Business process optimisation 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

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.

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.

Benefits

• 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

Further information

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

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 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 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.