JOB TITLE: Responsible AI Specialist
LOCATION(S): Bristol, London or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations
We’re seeking a motivated and technically adept Responsible AI Specialist to join the Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) in our AI Centre of Excellence. You’ll be part of a dynamic team driving the ethical, safe, and scalable deployment of AI across Lloyds Banking Group. This role is pivotal in ensuring our AI systems operate with integrity, transparency, and in alignment with regulatory and societal expectations.
What You’ll Do
Building guardrails: Deliver enterprise-grade guardrails, aligned to our AI Assurance Framework and Platform Change Framework and embedded in our enterprise tooling, supporting the safe deployment of predictive AI, generative AI and agentic AI use cases
Accelerate Use Case Deployment: Partner with business and platform teams to ensure responsible development and deployment of AI solutions, including third-party assurance and lifecycle governance.
Lead Technical Enablement: Provide hands-on guidance on fairness, explainability, and bias mitigation, and help teams adopt best practices in AI ethics.
Influence and Educate: Translate responsible AI principles into actionable insights for senior stakeholders, and contribute to training and awareness initiatives.
About us
If 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.
What You’ll Bring
Proven experience applying Responsible AI principles in production environments, including fairness, explainability (e.g., SHAP, LIME), and privacy-by-design.
Strong understanding of ethical risk mitigation, bias audits, and governance frameworks such as SS1/23, GenAIOps, or equivalent.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to senior audiences and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience with agile delivery and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
Desirable Skills
Background in Banking/Finance, especially in collaboration with Risk Control or Model Validation teams.
Familiarity with agentic AI risks, hallucination control, and multi-agent governance is a plus.
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.
