Lead Data and AI Scientist, Lloyds
ML Models Fraud and Financial Crime
£70.9-78.8k
+ Annual performance-related bonus
2 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Open for applications
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£70.9-78.8k
+ Annual performance-related bonus
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a candidate with a genuine passion for AI and protecting customers that can apply the latest advances in the field to help identify and prevent acts of fraud and financial crime across tens of millions of transactions per day
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics or similar field
- Experience building, deploying and maintaining NLP/Deep Learning Systems
- Extensive experience in at least one Deep Learning framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
- Well versed in the scientific Python ecosystem (NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas etc.)
- Strong Data Engineering underpinnings and an ability to work with big data (Tbs)
- Strong leadership skills, using empathy, clarity and challenge to support your team to be their best
- Strong communication skills with an ability to adapt style for different audiences
- Experience with Huggingface or PyTorch Geometric libraries
Desirable
- Understanding of MLOps and how it applies to the entire model lifecycle
- Experience deploying models behind APIs
- Experience with cloud platforms especially , GCP and Vertex
What the job involves
- In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform Team, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing Lloyds Banking Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime
- The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group
- We’re looking to recruit a Lead Data & AI Scientist to lead on the delivery of sophisticated methods to a wide range of Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) use cases including, natural language processing, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and graph-based Machine Learning (ML)
- Use your skill set to build machine learned models to detect and prevent fraud and financial crime
- Lead small teams in the development and maintenance of AI products that serve internal and external customers
- Work with diverse datasets and efficiently process and learn from them in order to gain insights
- Engage with data engineering teams within the Economic Crime Intelligence lab to help guide how we can best make use of our ECP data
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business problems and help guide where data AI solutions could prove fruitful
Application process
- End Date: October 17, 2025
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its current technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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