Senior Machine Learning & AI Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group
Leeds
2 days ago
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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 NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow)

 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

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 a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means 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 been 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.

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