Principal Software Engineer – Automation & Agentic AI
About this role
End Date
Thursday 02 April 2026
Salary Range
£0 - £0
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
We’re looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to provide senior technical and people leadership within our Automation and Agentic AI team. This is a senior manager-equivalent role, accountable for leading teams, shaping technology direction, and delivering high impact outcomes at scale.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take end to end ownership for your teams — their people, culture, ways of working, and the technology they build and run. You’ll partner closely with Product Owners to ensure clear vision, strong delivery, and continuous improvement.
Job Description
JOB TITLE:
Principal Technical Application Specialist (Agentic AI & Automation)
Requirements
- 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
- At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
- We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
- 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.