Data Scientist

Lloyds Banking Group

Lead Data & AI Scientist driving AI innovation in commercial banking. Shape solution delivery and mentor team members for impactful, scalable outcomes.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conceptualise and lead technology-based solutions that solve complex business problems.
Improve digital experiences, automate processes, and provide data-driven insights to support colleague and client journeys.
Shape and define the capability roadmap for Data & AI, including cloud-native solutions and scalable architectures.
Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring for data scientists and engineers.
Ensure rigorous quality assurance in model development, testing, and deployment.
Develop proofs-of-concept to demonstrate new capabilities and accelerate adoption.
Partner with colleagues to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable AI solutions.
Advocate for responsible AI practices and compliance with governance frameworks.
Guide the team in solving complex AI use cases and improving existing approaches.
Contribute to the design of training curricula and professional development paths for the Data & AI community.
Drive measurable business outcomes through AI solutions aligned to strategic priorities.
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with Group Data & AI standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Set the strategic direction for Data & AI across BCB, aligning investment and priorities with business outcomes
Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-level AI solutions across client journeys, automation, and insight generation
Own the Data & AI capability roadmap, ensuring scalable, cloud-based architectures that support long-term growth
Provide technical and thought leadership to the Data Science & AI team, building capability and setting engineering standards
Oversee the full lifecycle of AI solutions, ensuring robust development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
Partner with senior leaders to shape high-value AI use cases and influence decision-making at leadership level
Embed responsible AI practices, ensuring all solutions meet governance, risk, and regulatory requirements
Drive measurable commercial and operational outcomes, with clear accountability for impact, adoption, and value delivered

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI solutionscloud-native solutionsdata-driven insightsquality assurancemodel developmentautomationproofs-of-conceptscalable architecturesenterprise-level AI solutionscontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcoachingmentoringcollaborationinfluencing decision-makingstrategic directioncommunicationproblem-solvingadvocacy for responsible AItraining curriculum design