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Tuesday 03 March 2026Salary Range
£72,702 - £109,053We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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Job Title: Senior AI Prompt Engineer
Salary: £72,702 - £80,000
Location: 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 your time, at our Leeds or Edinburgh
About This Opportunity:
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has highlighted the progressive potential of AI in strengthening the UK’s investment culture, particularly in closing the advice gap and making financial mentorship more accessible. With only 31% of UK adults currently investing and the majority doing so without regulated advice, there’s a clear opportunity to support better financial outcomes!
As one of the UK’s largest providers of pensions and investments, Scottish Widows is well-positioned to lead this change. Within Lloyds Banking Group, the D2C Investments Platform supports Halifax Share Dealing Ltd. and Ready-Made propositions via Embark and FNZ, delivering investment solutions across trusted brands like Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland. Our mission involves redefining the investment experience for our 26 million customers across the UK, harnessing the power of AI!
You'll join our newly formed Agentic AI lab, pushing the boundary of discovery for the industry into the potential of AI technologies in the investing experience. Leading the development and deployment of advanced Artificial Intelligence systems for LBG, you'll maximise your expertise in prompt engineering, software development, Python and CI/CD to build and provision to live robust AI solutions within our investment experience.
What you’ll be doing:
Shape the design and lead the implementation of advanced AI systems: utilising technology to deliver scalable, intelligent solutions.
Designed and build prompts to optimise AI performance within a multi-agent framework: manage the full prompt lifecycle across the internal ecosystem
Apply wider AI technologies, such as RAG, where appropriate: enhance customer experience by bringing to bear LBG’s rich knowledge base.
Collaborate with data scientists to translate model requirements into technical solutions: ensuring alignment between business needs and AI capabilities.
Deploy and supervise AI systems in production environments: maintain performance, reliability, and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to AI systems: ensure smooth operation and rapid recovery from technical challenges.
Keep up to date with the latest AI technologies and standards: continuously improve systems through innovation and best practice.
What you’ll need:
Prompt engineering expertise: Designed and refined prompts to optimise multi-agent AI systems, applying techniques like zero-shot prompting and RAG with precision and situational awareness.
Expert-level Python development: You've built high-performance applications, developed custom modules, and integrated Python with other systems using advanced features and libraries.
Applied machine learning: You've selected appropriate models for multifaceted scenarios, diagnosed performance issues, and improved outcomes through hands-on experience.
Software engineering best practices: You use design patterns to build scalable, maintainable solutions and lead code reviews to ensure quality across the team.
DevOps leadership: You've driven automation and continuous improvement across the development lifecycle, ensuring every build was fast, secure, and reliable.
Google Cloud Platform proficiency: You've earned certifications and deployed cloud projects, with additional experience in GCP-based AI tooling.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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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