SALARY: £92,700pa to £109,000pa plus an extensive benefits package.
LOCATIONS: Leeds or Edinburgh.
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.
Lloyds Banking Group puts customers at the heart of everything. Data & AI Science forms a key part of our strategy, and as the AI Controls Senior Manager you will be contributing to the largest ever transformation in this history of financial services and ensuring you are protecting our customers in the process. This is a fantastic opportunity to support the Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) business and play a pivotal role in transforming how the business area works. You'll help us protect our customers through the modernization of processes and tools – bringing innovation, automation, and advanced analytics to the heart of their decision-making.
Want to hear more?
This is a key role sitting within our IP&I Chief Controls Office, where you'll be at the forefront of supporting IP&I to embed automation and Data Science ensuring appropriate controls exist on models and processes, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable solutions. As the AI Controls Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in independently testing, reviewing and providing SME input and appropriate challenge and support for any IP&I AI models ensuring the customer is protected. This will also involve developing, operating and maintaining machine learning solutions to monitor and test appropriate outcomes for customers. You will provide technical leadership, shape the capability roadmap, and ensure the delivery of high-quality models. Your will be mentoring and guiding the AI controls team while fostering knowledge sharing and industry best practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of controls, identifying innovative ways to automate and enable the business to build AI models at scale without slowing down productivity or adding in unnecessary barriers.
- Apply appropriate data science techniques to develop and/or tune models and evaluate performance.
- Own and evolve the IP&I AI control and monitoring framework, leading control testing, assurance and remediation tracking for AI use cases.
- Lead and work within cross-functional teams comprising of business leaders, product managers, risk specialists, data scientists, data engineers and ML/AI engineers.
- Partner with the Group Responsible AI team to embed robust ethical principles, bias mitigation techniques, and regulatory compliance into all AI development workflows, representing IP&I at Group Governance meetings.
- Coach and mentor junior data scientists and AI engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and curiosity.
- Maintain an active view of emerging tools and techniques, develop proof-of-concepts to demonstrate new capabilities, guide the team in solving complex AI use cases and improving existing approaches.
- Develop AI models and analytics to strengthen control monitoring.
About you
- Minimum 5 years' experience with Foundation Models, strong theoretical understanding and creative problem solving.
- Experience assessing and advising on suitable Machine Learning solutions, troubleshooting model performance issues, with advanced methods such as forecasting, ensemble methods, model stacking.
- 5+ years experience in Python, capable of multi-threading, asynchronous programming, profiling, debugging.
- Design AI-integrated workflows, anticipate AI behaviour, adapt usage creatively, coach others, contribute to AI strategy discussions.
- Experience designing and applying appropriate controls, with customer focus.
- Capable of end-to-end delivery on GCP following standard architectures and templates.
- Has led or line‑managed teams of 10+ colleagues to deliver strategic initiatives.
Our place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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LOCATIONS: Leeds or Edinburgh.
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.
Lloyds Banking Group puts customers at the heart of everything. Data & AI Science forms a key part of our strategy, and as the AI Controls Senior Manager you will be contributing to the largest ever transformation in this history of financial services and ensuring you are protecting our customers in the process. This is a fantastic opportunity to support the Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) business and play a pivotal role in transforming how the business area works. You’ll help us protect our customers through the modernization of processes and tools – bringing innovation, automation, and advanced analytics to the heart of their decision-making.
Want to hear more?
This is a key role sitting within our IP&I Chief Controls Office, where you’ll be at the forefront of supporting IP&I to embed automation and Data Science ensuring appropriate controls exist on models and processes, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable solutions. As the AI Controls Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in independently testing, reviewing and providing SME input and appropriate challenge and support for any IP&I AI models ensuring the customer is protected. This will also involve developing, operating and maintaining machine learning solutions to monitor and test appropriate outcomes for customers. You will provide technical leadership, shape the capability roadmap, and ensure the delivery of high-quality models. Your will be mentoring and guiding the AI controls team while fostering knowledge sharing and industry best practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of controls, identifying innovative ways to automate and enable the business to build AI models at scale without slowing down productivity or adding in unnecessary barriers.
- Apply appropriate data science techniques to develop and/or tune models and evaluate performance.
- Own and evolve the IP&I AI control and monitoring framework, leading control testing, assurance and remediation tracking for AI use cases.
- Lead and work within cross-functional teams comprising of business leaders, product managers, risk specialists, data scientists, data engineers and ML/AI engineers.
- Partner with the Group Responsible AI team to embed robust ethical principles, bias mitigation techniques, and regulatory compliance into all AI development workflows, representing IP&I at Group Governance meetings.
- Coach and mentor junior data scientists and AI engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and curiosity.
- Maintain an active view of emerging tools and techniques, develop proof-of-concepts to demonstrate new capabilities, guide the team in solving complex AI use cases and improving existing approaches.
- Develop AI models and analytics to strengthen control monitoring.
About you
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with Foundation Models, strong theoretical understanding and creative problem solving.
- Experience assessing and advising on suitable Machine Learning solutions, troubleshooting model performance issues, with advanced methods such as forecasting, ensemble methods, model stacking.
- 5+ years experience in Python, capable of multi-threading, asynchronous programming, profiling, debugging.
- Design AI-integrated workflows, anticipate AI behaviour, adapt usage creatively, coach others, contribute to AI strategy discussions.
- Experience designing and applying appropriate controls, with customer focus.
- Capable of end-to-end delivery on GCP following standard architectures and templates.
- Has led or line‑managed teams of 10+ colleagues to deliver strategic initiatives.
Our place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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