AI Product Developer

Company: Yorkshire Building Society Group
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Location: Leeds
Job Description:

Are you passionate about making a difference, using your skills & experience to be a key enabler of AI-driven transformation? If so, we may have the role for you!

We are excited to share an incredible opportunity for an AI Product Developer to join our team in AI & Data. As our newest AI Product Developer, you will be responsible for the hands‑on engineering for the design, prototyping and delivery of AI‑enabled products that address real business and operational challenges.

This is a hybrid role with working from home plus some onsite presence in our Bradford & central Leeds offices.

About the role

Operating within the AI Enablement and Foundry delivery team, the role will translate business needs into secure, scalable AI capabilities across internal and customer facing services. Through experimentation, engineering discipline and collaboration, this role will support improved efficiency, decision‑making and customer outcomes.

You will‑

  • Focus on the design and delivery of production‑ready AI solutions, using modern AI technologies within the Microsoft ecosystem, ensuring responsible adoption in a regulated financial services environment.
  • Leverage large language models, agentic architectures, and speech technologies, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Develop and maintain retrieval and orchestration architectures, including RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG), prompt orchestration, validation pipelines, and traceability mechanisms to improve accuracy and reliability.
  • Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise platforms by designing solutions that interact with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and other core systems.
  • Apply MLOps and operational practices to support deployment, monitoring, versioning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management of AI models and services.
  • Enable reuse and collaboration by creating shared AI assets, supporting teams through workshops and coaching, and contributing to the organisation’s broader AI capability development.

About you

  • You’ll have hands on experience building AI solutions using large language models, agent frameworks an AI APIs.
  • A strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector search and retrieval optimisation.
  • Experience developing AI solutions using Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot Studio
  • You’ll have familiarity with enterprise integration patterns using Microsoft Graph, Power Platform and business applications. As well as working knowledge of MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and operational support of AI systems.
  • Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work‑life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development

We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

  • Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
  • Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
  • Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
  • Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
  • My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self‑service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.

Want more information?

If you have any questions about this role, please contact careers@ybs.co.uk

Please note: This advert will close 17th April.

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Posted: April 4th, 2026