Software Engineer - Security Data and AI in Bristol

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, or Bristol

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, or Bristol office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

Join our engineering team to contribute to the "Security Data and Artificial Intelligence" lab, a part of the "Chief Security Office" (CSO). Lloyds Banking Group is progressing in its digital transformation. Within the Chief Security Office, we focus on keeping customers, colleagues, and assets safe from threats. The sheer pace and scale of change taking place in the data space means there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us! With a modern technology toolset at our fingertips, we'll build more opportunities to improve our data. We'll also apply AI and machine learning capabilities. Software Engineers are part of a dynamic team, working on the design, development and maintenance of software applications. Working alongside expert engineers to help build high‑quality solutions that drive real impact. This role is all about hands on engineering - you'll focus on writing phenomenal code, solving technical challenges, and continuously improving our applications.

What you’ll be doing

• Write clean, efficient, and well‑documented code while learning standard methodologies through code reviews and team discussions.
• Work with senior engineers to understand project requirements, fix bugs, and build great software together.
• Keep things running efficiently by maintaining and solving issues in applications.
• Dive into root cause analysis, boost security, and make sure our software stays reliable.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, sharpen your coding game, and grow in an agile environment.
• Stay on top of live service support, keeping an eye out for bugs and making sure everything runs smoothly.
• Maintain an open and adaptive outlook – constantly curious and willing to get involved in lab and platform activities.

Qualifications

• Primary Programming Languages: Python, Bash scripting.
• Experience with designing Agentic AI solutions, preferably in context to Cyber Security.
• Quality Engineering – especially test automation.
• Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) design principles.
• Understanding of Data Lifecycle.
• Collaboration abilities, capable of persuading and coordinating varied teams towards a common goal.
• Some experience of constructing secure systems while following enterprise security and compliance guidelines.
• Ability to communicate a technical concept to a non‑technical audience.

Desirable experience

• Experience in DevOps engineering, ideally GCP, but with a growth mindset if another cloud platform.
• Knowledge of Kubeflow deployments or experience delivering platforms built for AI use cases e.g. through Vertex AI.

Why you’ll fit in

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

Benefits

• 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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies