AI Governance Engineer - BPL

Join us as an AI Governance Lead, to support and evolve responsible AI adoption across Barclays by embedding clear and effective governance, risk and oversight frameworks within our technology and innovation landscape.

This role sits within our AI and engineering ecosystem, where you will help translate policy, regulatory and risk requirements into practical and scalable technical approaches while enabling teams to innovate in a safe and supportive way. You will contribute to shaping enterprise-wide AI governance, ensuring solutions are secure, auditable and aligned with business and regulatory expectations. The focus is on how AI is developed and deployed at scale, working with a wide range of stakeholders and advanced technologies to maintain trust and enable balanced innovation.

• Solid Python and software engineering background, with a focus on building scalable, production‑grade systems.
• Experience implementing policy‑as‑code, governance‑as‑code or rules‑as‑code frameworks, including designing and embedding these approaches across large‑scale environments and supporting their adoption across multiple teams.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment pipelines and integration within modern engineering environments, and contributing to engineering standards and supporting consistent practices across programmes or functions.
• Cloud architecture experience, ideally AWS and/or Azure.
• Knowledge of MLOps, LLMOps, model registries, evaluation frameworks and observability.
• In‑depth understanding of AI governance, model risk, technology risk, data privacy, security and auditability.

• Translate policy, regulatory and risk requirements into practical and scalable technical approaches.
• Embed governance, risk and oversight frameworks within the technology and innovation landscape.
• Ensure AI solutions are secure, auditable and aligned with business and regulatory expectations.
• Enable teams to innovate safely through scalable, production‑grade systems and best‑practice engineering standards.

This role will be based in London
. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office‑based presence expected.