Lead AI Engineer (Leeds / Edinburgh)

Lead AI Engineer Leeds or Edinburgh £72,000 - £108,000 Your new role The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the group to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency. Working alongside the wider AI Programme (which will continue to oversee/coordinate AI activity across the group), the department will partner with business leads to shape and deliver work in priority areas - Authorisations, SPC, EMO and Anti Money Laundering. Responsibilities Standardise and advance reusable AI solution patterns and reference architectures, improving cross-team consistency and delivery quality to enable more reliable and scalable product development Establish end-to-end technical architectures for LLM-enabled systems, covering data pipelines, retrieval/RAG, prompt orchestration and agent workflows to support robust and effective AI implementation Analyse complex constraints across product, data, security, legal and operations, translating them into clear standards and recommendations to enable delivery of highly complex AI solutions Enhance CI/CD pipelines for AI systems, introducing automation, traceability and controlled release processes to ensure safe and repeatable deployments. Define monitoring, observability and operational strategies, improving visibility across quality, performance, safety, cost and reliability ..... full job details .....