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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Leeds Building Society
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cloud Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Data Strategy, Databricks
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=870ce12f8b9d4291

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience of designing, building, maintaining and supporting AI solutions from end to end, in an enterprise environment.
 * Strong Foundry and Copilot experience
 * Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise data, applications, APIs or workflows.
 * Strong technical capability in Python.
 * Awareness of responsible AI, AI risk management, data protection, UK GDPR, security and compliance principles.
 * Good problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn business challenges into practical AI or automation solutions.
 * The confidence to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining complex ideas clearly and collaboratively.
 * Experience with cloud-based AI, analytics or engineering platforms; Databricks would be beneficial.

## Description

It's a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too - join our Data Strategy team as an AI Engineer and help us build practical, secure and responsible AI solutions that make a real difference for our colleagues, customers and members.

How you'll make a difference

You'll design, build and embed AI capabilities that solve real business problems and support our transformation, data and AI ambitions. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll work closely with business teams, architects, security, risk and data colleagues to take ideas from proof of concept through to scalable, well-governed solutions.


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