End Date

Thursday 04 June 2026

Salary Range

116,535 - 137,100

We support flexible working click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

We are looking for senior strategy lead Agentic AI. Leading an Agentic AI domain such as Customer or Operations, you drive the reimagination of endtoend value chains, shaping how Agentic AI enables the Groups business priorities in practice. The role requires strong understanding of AI and Agentic AI, combined with business acumen and a solutionoriented mindset to translate ambition into clear value cases and realistic, scalable roadmaps. You orchestrate the full lifecycle of Agentic AI initiatives within the domain, from core capabilities and shared foundations through prioritisation, build, deployment, and value realisation, working across business, technology, and control functions. You bring diverse perspectives together, influence senior stakeholders, and articulate clearly how Agentic AI unlocks value and advances the Groups strategic objectives.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Agentic AI Strategy Lead

SALARY: 116,535 - 150,810

LOCATION: Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester or London

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one our office locations above.

About this Opportunity 

Join one of the Groups most fast-paced and forward-looking areas, where emerging digital technology is transforming how we work and deliver value.

Were looking for a Senior Strategy Lead for Agentic AI to help bring the next wave of AI into the heart of the business. Leading a domain such as Customer or Operations, youll reimagine endtoend value chains and shape how Agentic AI delivers against the Groups priorities.

Heres where youll make a difference:

• Lead an Agentic AI domain, owning how that domain maps to and enables the Groups business priorities and outcomes. 
• Work with domain and business leaders to identify, frame, and prioritise Agentic AI opportunities and use cases, ensuring choices are grounded in commercial and operational reality. 
• Assess priorities across the full Agentic AI lifecycle, from inception and capability definition through build, deployment, adoption, and value realisation, identifying gaps and strengthening weak points. 
• Build and maintain a realistic, scalable domain roadmap, orchestrating work across business units, platforms, and enabling teams. 
• Translate business objectives into agentic and technical requirements, with sufficient understanding of data, integration, and system dependencies to make the strategy credible and executable. 
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders to secure alignment, resolve competing priorities, and agree clear OKRsmaintaining a single, coherent domain narrative across value, governance, platforms, skills, and change. 
• Define domainlevel value outcomes and track realisation, ensuring Agentic AI initiatives remain outcomeled rather than activitydriven. 
• Drive operatingmodel change and business adoption, shaping how agents, teams, controls, and processes come together to make Agentic AI effective in practice. 
• Promote crossfunctional collaboration and reuse across business domains and Agentic AI ecosystem, reducing duplication and accelerating scale. 
• Lead and develop a small team of strategy managers within the AI CoE, creating focus, delivery discipline, and synergy across Agentic AI domains. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, youd be wrong. Were an innovative, fast-changing business thats shaping finance as a force for good. A bank thats empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What were looking for?

• A strong understanding of AI and Agentic AI, including how these capabilities scale in practice across platforms, operating models, controls, and enterprise-wide adoption
• Familiarity with the core building blocks of Agentic AIdata, integration, infrastructure, and orchestrationand how they come together to enable robust, scalable solutions
• Experience translating business priorities into clear AI and Agentic AI strategies, value cases, and actionable roadmaps
• The technical depth to engage confidently with platform and engineering teams, alongside the ability to operate effectively with senior business leaders
• Strong strategic judgement and commercial awareness, grounded in real-world experience of what works (and what doesnt)
• Experience leading or shaping large-scale AI or Agentic AI initiatives, from early strategy through to delivery and value realisation

And any experience of these would be great

• Working in financial services or another complex, regulated environment. 
• Working in tech or consulting firms. 
• Handson involvement in AI or Agentic AI programme delivery, from design through deployment and adoption. 
• Experience shaping AI portfolios, value narratives, or benefits frameworks at scale. 
• Familiarity with modern data and AI platforms, and how platform roadmaps are prioritised, funded, and governed in large organisations. 
• Experience leading crossfunctional programmes spanning business and technology teams. 

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And its why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. Were disability confident. So if youd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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 were building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.