Senior Manager, AI Security

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, AI Security

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

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. The CSO’s Security Data Services lab have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Senior Manager for AI Security to lead our efforts in securing AI systems and applications.

This role will build and define strategy focusing in 3 areas: safe adoption, understanding attacker use, and using to tackle security challenges. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AI technologies and cybersecurity, with a consistent track record in leading teams and projects in this domain.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and shape AI security team, providing direction, mentorship, and support.

• Develop and implement comprehensive security strategies for AI systems, including risk assessments, threat modelling, and mitigation plans.

• Develop and implement a strategy for securing AI systems and applications, ensuring they are resilient against evolving threats.

• Build strategy to use AI to enhance security measures, including threat detection, incident response, and anomaly detection.

• Collaborate with AI development teams to integrate security best practices throughout the AI lifecycle, from design to deployment.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, related to AI security.

• Defining and implement approach to assessing AI security in the group, to include continuous assessment, detection model, and commissioning adversarial testing, to identify and rectify security weaknesses.

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI security and emerging threats, continuously improving the security posture of AI systems.

• Maintain relationships with external partners, vendors, and customers to enhance AI security measures.

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:

• Relevant qualification in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Demonstrable experience in cybersecurity, with time spent focusing on identifying vulnerabilities in AI systems to improve their security.

• Extensive knowledge of AI technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks.

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles, including encryption, authentication, access control, and network security.

• Experience with security frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR.

• Demonstrated experience in conducting risk assessments, threat modelling, and security audits.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.

• Ability to work cross-functionally with multi-functional teams and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

It would be great if you also had

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, or similar are highly desirable.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!