AI Engineer

Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. We share the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market’s brightest minds, working together for a braver world. Our role is to inspire courage, so tomorrow’s progress isn’t limited by today’s risks. Our shared values: we are brave; we are stronger together; we do the right thing; guide what we do and how we act. If you share our values and our passion to build a future that’s more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, you’ll find a home at Lloyd’s – build a braver future with us.

You will deliver & accelerate the adoption of AI-driven solutions within Lloyd’s Databricks Lakehouse environment, enabling actionable insights, automation, and innovation across the Corporation and the Market. This role provides a clear ownership of meaningful work, access to modern data stacks, and a hybrid working environment with a clear executive Data & AI strategy that includes strong AI governance.

• Maintain and enforce best practices for AI engineering and governance within the Lakehouse architecture, ensuring compliance and security standards.
• Integrate generative AI capabilities (e.g., Databricks Genie) into business workflows to automate processes and deliver advanced analytics solutions.
• Operationalise AI and machine learning models within the Databricks Lakehouse environment, including deployment, monitoring, and optimisation of data pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed AI-driven insights into core business processes, ensuring alignment with Lloyd’s Data & AI strategy.
• Contribute to the development of Lloyd’s Data & AI Marketplace, supporting innovation and enabling self-service analytics capabilities for stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation by researching emerging trends in AI, ML, and visualisation technologies, recommending enhancements to tools and processes.
• Provide technical leadership and knowledge sharing within the AI & Analytics team, mentoring colleagues on visualisation techniques and AI engineering practices.
• Monitor and report on performance and adoption of AI solutions, ensuring measurable business impact and alignment with strategic objectives.

• Lakehouse & Data Engineering: Databricks SQL, Delta Lake, pipeline orchestration, Unity Catalog, Azure data governance and performance optimisation, built secure, scalable Lakehouse pipelines and data products.
• ML Engineering & MLOps: Python/SQL for ML, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, experience deploying and maintaining ML models with drift/quality controls.
• GenAI & Agentic Systems: LLM orchestration, secure prompting, RAG, vector search, delivered GenAI PoCs and workflow‑embedded solutions.
• Solution Design & SDLC: Designing reference architectures, defining NFRs, Agile delivery, created solution designs through to production with strong governance alignment.
• Observability & Performance: Telemetry, metrics, SLOs, cost optimisation, improved pipeline reliability and reduced run-costs.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Cross-functional partnering, code reviews, mentoring, enabled teams to adopt standards and influenced platform evolution.
• Continuous Innovation: Rapid prototyping, vendor evaluation, cost–value assessment, converted PoCs into production solutions.

• Postgraduate degree in a relevant field.
• Professional experience or certifications in data architecture, business intelligence, data engineering, or analytics.

Diversity and inclusion are a focus for us – Lloyd’s aims to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets we work in. One where everyone is treated with dignity and respect to achieve their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making workplace adjustments, we offer regular health and wellbeing programmes, diversity and inclusion training, employee networks, mentoring and volunteering opportunities as well as investment into your professional development.

We understand that our work/life balance is important to us all and that a hybrid of working from the office and home can offer a great level of flexibility. Flexible working forms part of a total reward approach which offers a host of other benefits over and above the standard offering (generous pension, healthcare, wellbeing etc). These include financial support for training, education & development, a benefit allowance (to spend on our flexible benefits such as gym membership, dental insurance, extra holiday or to partake in our cycle to work scheme), employee recognition scheme and various employee discount schemes.

By choosing Lloyd’s, you will be part of a team that brings together the best minds in the industry, and together with our underwriters and brokers, we create innovative, responsive solutions allowing us to share risk and solve complex problems.