Senior AI Prompt Engineer

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.

• Fix 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 guidelines.

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 guidelines: 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.

Interested? We are holding an information call on 27th March at 3pm-4pm. For more details, please contact Michelle Moran.