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Principal Software Engineer – Automation & Agentic AI

  • Location
    Manchester
  • End date
    Thursday 02 April 2026
  • Job type
    Permanent
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Posted date

Posted 6 days ago

Job ID

146266

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Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE:  Principal Technical Application Specialist (Agentic AI & Automation)

SALARY: £92,700 - £120,000

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS:  Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Manchester office

What makes this opportunity outstanding

Lloyds Banking Group leads the financial industry by integrating automation and AI into its operations. The Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI & Automation) role offers the chance to drive world-class innovation and transformation. This position plays a key role in crafting the future of automation strategies and AI adoption, ensuring the organization maintains a competitive edge.

What you’ll be doing

  • Leading and developing high‑performing engineering teams, setting clear objectives, encouraging a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
  • Owning delivery across the full application lifecycle — from ideation through build and into live operations
  • Setting strategy and technical direction to realise the value of running automation at scale for both customers and colleagues
  • Providing technical leadership across agentic AI, automation, cloud platforms and modern engineering practices
  • Driving strong Agile ways of working, predictable delivery, and continuous improvement
  • Creating a psychologically safe, inclusive and high‑trust culture
  • Ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, observable and supportable in production
  • Providing strong line management and coaching to help engineers reach their full potential while building skills, capability and leadership depth aligned to organisational priorities.

What we're looking for

  • Proven people management experience in a senior engineering role (leading teams of 6+)
  • Experience in delivering automation at scale ideally using tools such as RPA, Intelligent Automation and Agents
  • Experience in Agentic AI systems with knowledge of Agentic frameworks such as Langchain, Langgraph, MCP and A2A
  • Hands-on cloud engineering expertise, with experience building secure, resilient and scalable platforms in production (GCP preferred)
  • Strong all‑round engineering expertise spanning DevOps and CI/CD, containerised solutions (Kubernetes), Quality Engineering, Agile delivery, and architecture/design
  • Confidence influencing at peer and senior leadership level

Why this role


This role offers the chance to lead significant automation and AI initiatives, shape how engineering is done at scale, and work in a culture built on empowerment, trust and excellence — making a tangible difference to people, platforms and the outcomes we deliver.

About working for us

We’re committed to building an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and offer support through reasonable adjustments if needed.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • 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
  • 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Think all banks are the same? You'd be wrong.

We're a fast paced, forward thinking 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.

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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.