Security Specialist

JOB TITLE: Security Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Manchester, Leeds or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering the Group's vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and customers from security threats. We’re responsible for defining and communicating Lloyds Banking Group's security strategy and providing a range of critical Enterprise Security Services which not only operate key controls that keep the Group safe but also enable the digital transformation agenda of the wider organisation.

What will I do

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining a deep understanding of the security capability and technology landscape across Lloyds Banking Group. Your expertise will be central to our strategy of simplifying, consolidating, and modernising the Group’s technology environment to deliver maximum value for our customers. This position is critical to safeguarding the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation, ensuring our security foundations remain robust and future-ready.

We’re looking for a security expert to take on a pivotal role in where your expertise can significantly impact our security landscape. Play a key role in crafting and implementing our security technologies. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a diverse, highly skilled team and make a tangible impact on our cybersecurity environment.

You’ll work with product owners, engineering leads, enterprise architects, and senior customers to help build the security technology direction. You’ll perform technical product assessments to ensure the tooling meets its purpose. The customer will be central to your actions. You’ll use industry frameworks, standards, and policies to develop opportunities and value for customers, supporting their needs. Interaction with customers at all levels and connection with vendors to understand roadmaps will help find chances for technology improvements, consolidation, and simplification.

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

• Passionate about acquiring insights and applying them to build customer and business value.

• Security experience, spanning multi-disciplinary product, feature, or platform teams across at least two security domains.

• Hands-on implementation and operational expertise in IT, Cloud, and/or Cyber technologies.

• Demonstrable ability to compare technologies and provide analysis to identify best-fit capabilities for evolving business needs.

• Previous experience in a Security Build or Consultancy role is desirable.

• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to use data to explain complex concepts in an accessible and compelling way.

• Ability to distil sophisticated information into clear, succinct written and oral presentations that influence collaborators with limited technical knowledge and guide their thinking on technology’s potential.

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

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