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The purpose of the Lab is to accelerate internal AI-driven employee productivity and process automation using the latest agentic co-working technologies. Job Description\nJob Title: Principal Engineer - AI Productivity Lab \nSalary: £84624- £105,780 depending on location and experience\nLocation: Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester\nWorking Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office location.\nAbout this Opportunity \nWe 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 co-working technologies. \nYou 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. \nWorking 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. \nYou will be working within the Data & AI Team 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.\nDay to day, you will:\nLead the engineering of coworking solutions (agents, tools and automations) for priority business areas, taking designs from prototype to operational MVP.\nDesign and build reusable capabilities for the Lab’s coworking platform and repository (skills, tools and operating procedure assets) with a clear path to adoption.\nApply hands-on experience of agentic coding and/or coworking tools and the open-source ecosystem to evaluate options, recommend approaches and accelerate delivery.\nPartner with business stakeholders and line-of-business champions to shape use cases, embed solutions into SOPs and measure outcomes. \nCoach and mentor engineers through technical leadership, code review and constructive feedback, and engage senior stakeholders on technical direction.\nWhy Lloyds Banking Group \nIf 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.\nWhat you’ll need\nProven experience leading the delivery of technology solutions to business areas in complex production environments, with ownership of business outcomes. \nExtensive knowledge and hands-on experience of solutions architecture, software engineering and business process automation. \nStrong hands-on experience with agentic coding and/or coworking technology and ecosystem (e.g. Claude Code and/or Cowork, OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot).\nStrong understanding of operational processes and risk management (Financial Services preferred).\nAbility to influence stakeholders and guide teams through ambiguity, translating productivity opportunities into clear technical direction and MVPs.\n Desirable:\nExpertise in knowledge management, enterprise ontology and knowledge graph technology.\nBusiness process optimisation experience (e.g. Business Process Modelling, Lean Six Sigma).\nExperience with applied research / experimentation.\nAdvanced degree (MSc, PhD) in computer science, artificial intelligence or a related subject.\nAbout working for us \nOur 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.\nWe 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. \nWe also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:\nA generous pension contribution of up to 15% \nAn annual performance-related bonus \nShare schemes including free shares \nBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping \n30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top \nA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies \nReady for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? 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