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AI Product Developer

Job ID: 010012

Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: £53,000 - £75,000 Dependant upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits

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Are you passionate about making a difference, using your skills & experience to be a key enabler of AI-driven transformation? If so, we may have the role for you!

We are excited to share an incredible opportunity for an AI Product Developer to join our team in AI & Data. As our newest AI Product Developer, you will be responsible for the hands-on engineering for the design, prototyping and delivery of AI-enabled products that address real business and operational challenges.

This is a hybrid role with working from home plus some onsite presence in our Bradford & central Leeds offices.

About the role

Operating within the AI Enablement and Foundry delivery team, the role will translate business needs into secure, scalable AI capabilities across internal and customer facing services. Through experimentation, engineering discipline and collaboration, this role will support improved efficiency, decision-making and customer outcomes.

You will-

  • Focus on the design and delivery of production-ready AI solutions, using modern AI technologies within the Microsoft ecosystem, ensuring responsible adoption in a regulated financial services environment.
  • Leverage large language models, agentic architectures, and speech technologies, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Develop and maintain retrieval and orchestration architectures, including RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG), prompt orchestration, validation pipelines, and traceability mechanisms to improve accuracy and reliability.
  • Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise platforms by designing solutions that interact with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and other core systems.
  • Apply MLOps and operational practices to support deployment, monitoring, versioning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management of AI models and services.
  • Enable reuse and collaboration by creating shared AI assets, supporting teams through workshops and coaching, and contributing to the organisation’s broader AI capability development.

About you

  • You’ll have hands on experience building AI solutions using large language models, agent frameworks an AI APIs.
  • A strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector search and retrieval optimisation.
  • Experience developing AI solutions using Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot Studio
  • You’ll have familiarity with enterprise integration patterns using Microsoft Graph, Power Platform and business applications. As well as working knowledge of MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and operational support of AI systems.
  • Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders

About Our Benefits

Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…

  • Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)

  • On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)

  • Access to brilliant health benefits

  • Life assurance at 6 times your salary

  • 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)

  • Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket

  • Wellbeing resources and tools

  • Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

Learning & Development

Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.

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These include...

  • Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
  • Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
  • Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
  • Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
  • REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Learn about developing your career here

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

You’ll find people from all walks of life here, with different cultures, beliefs, ages, outlooks and more. And we’re proud of our differences. So we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to be their whole self at work.

Our five Colleague Networks play an important role in helping that happen – and have a real impact on our everyday working life here. Each is closely linked to our Inclusion and Diversity committee, and sponsored by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.

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And we also have other colleague groups, such as ManKind and Family Foundations, where colleagues can connect, and start conversations that can be taken into the Networks.

Community and Charity

Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.

We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.

Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…

We are trained in how to deal with people who are struggling, and how we can be more inclusive.

Awais

Software Development Engineer, Bradford

Our ways of working

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We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.

Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.

Find out more about our Ways of Working here:

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