AI Quality & Control Specialist
Job ID: 009603
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £58,100 per annum (dependant on 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 thrilled to announce an incredible opportunity for an AI Quality & Control Specialist to join our team in AI & Data. In this exciting brand-new role, you’ll lead the development and implementation of AI quality assurance and control frameworks across YBS, ensuring that AI-powered initiatives are explainable, robust and risk-aware by design. You will embed quality controls into business use cases, from projects through to BAU, and ensure all AI systems meet ethical, technical and regulatory expectations.
This is a hybrid role with working from home plus some onsite presence in our Bradford & central Leeds offices.
About the role
As an AI Quality & Control Specialist, you will design and implement AI quality assurance frameworks that uphold responsible AI principles and regulatory standards, with a key focus on addressing current and emerging AI risks including fairness, bias mitigation, and social impact.
- Lead the development of explainability protocols to ensure AI systems are transparent and auditable across their lifecycle, as well as implement and maintain quality risk and controls.
- Collaborate with data product and platform teams, data science, and transformation teams to ensure quality and control requirements are integrated into delivery pipelines.
- Establish governance checkpoints for AI initiatives, including pre-deployment reviews, post-implementation audits, and continuous monitoring.
- Support the AI Policy & Risk Specialist by translating policy into actionable quality controls and technical implementation guidance, also working with AI Council members to interlock quality checks, such as model risk, consumer duty.
- Provide expert guidance on use case documentation and traceability, ensuring alignment with internal governance and external regulatory expectations.
- Engage with external bodies and industry forums to benchmark YBS’s AI quality practices and incorporate emerging standards, and champion a culture of quality and accountability in AI development.
About you
You’ll have experience in Data or Computer Science, with proven experience in AI model development, validation, and lifecycle management, with a strong understanding of performance metrics. You will have
- Experience in designing and implementing quality assurance frameworks for AI systems.
- Familiarity with data and AI governance, ethics, and risk management
- Knowledge of global AI standards and technical governance frameworks (ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF). And familiarity with MLOps practice
- Proven experience embedding quality controls in transformation programmes and delivery pipelines, with the ability to translate policy and ethical principles into technical implementation guidance.
- A track record of working in agile, cross-functional teams with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear business outcomes, with excellent verbal and written communication.
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…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
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.
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.
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.
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…
Our ways of working
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.
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