Senior Technical Application Specialist - Digital Certificates

JOB TITLE: Senior Technical Application Specialist - Digital Certificates

LOCATION(S): Manchester or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

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

About this Opportunity:

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re moving to the next stages of our digital transformation, and it’s our job within the Chief Security Office (CSO) to ensure that we keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe from threat.

As a Senior Technical Application Specialist (TAS) in our Digital Certificates team, you’ll lead complex technical projects to build certificate automation patterns which can be consumed by technologists across the bank. The role will have the opportunity to tackle exciting topics such as crypto agility, shorter lived certs and quantum readiness as well as finding opportunities to optimise and maximise our certificate estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and Design Pipelines: Create and maintain robust, secure, and user-friendly certificate automation patterns that can be adopted and consumed by internal users.

• Coordinate the operation and management of certificate authorities, including succession planning and execution.

• Recommend and coordinate solution design processes to improve certificate platforms.

• Root Cause Analysis: Conduct detailed root cause analysis for critical issues using scripts and technical expertise.

• User Mentorship: Guide users on how they can implement certificates securely, and the considerations and standard methodology for issue free management.

• Mentorship: Mentor junior team members and offer expert consultation on secure certificate implementation.

• Policy Development: Contribute to IT Security policy development, crafting underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation.

• Product Specification and Testing: Develop product specifications and design testing procedures and standards.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Cloud Experience: Proven experience with cloud technologies is essential.

• CI/CD experience: Experience with Harness/Argo CD

• Digital Certificate Management: Extensive experience managing digital certificates and certificate authorities.

• Technical Expertise: Deep technical knowledge to investigate and resolve critical issues.

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide team members.

Any of these attributes would be really useful

• Collaborative: Ability to work well within a team and provide clear mentorship to users and colleagues.

• Innovative: Eager to embrace and implement new technologies and solutions., as well as continually looking to adapt and improve current offerings.

• Diligent: Strong attention to detail, ensuring flawless execution of tasks.

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 it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.