Lead Technical Application Specialist

JOB TITLE: Lead Technical Application Specialist

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

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.

We are transforming how we evidence compliance monitoring across critical regulatory regimes including SOX, SWIFT, SOC2, and CERT for the Group. As our new Lead Technical Application Specialist, you will be at the forefront of this transformation—driving technical excellence, operational rigour, and audit-readiness across for our new compliance monitoring solution. This is a newly created role within CSO’s Security Data Services Lab, offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of compliance monitoring technology in a high-impact, high-visibility environment.

What you’ll do

• Configuration & Integration Leadership
  Own and lead the configuration and integration of monitoring requirements across our in-scope regulations, ensuring seamless interoperability across our Compliance monitoring platform and data sources.

• Technical Delivery
  Drive end-to-end technical delivery of compliance solutions, from requirements gathering to deployment, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and automation.

• Technical Operations
  Oversee the operational health of our compliance service, working with our SRE function to ensure uptime, performance, and proactive issue resolution.

• Audit & Evidence Delivery
  Lead the technical response to audit requirements, ensuring timely, accurate, and complete evidence generation across SOX, SWIFT, SOC2, CERT and other regimes.

• Team Leadership & Collaboration
  Inspire and guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers, working closely with stakeholders across Security, Risk, Audit, and Data Engineering.

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:

• Demonstrable experience in technical leadership roles within compliance, security, or enterprise IT environments.

• Deep understanding of regulatory frameworks such as SOX, SWIFT, SOC2, CERT.

• Strong hands-on experience with application configuration, systems integration, and technical operations.

• Familiarity with audit processes and evidence management.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• A passion for innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.

It would be great if you also had

• Understanding of how to leverage AI within security monitoring technologies

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!