Engineering Lead - Cryptography & Key Management Lab

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Wellbeing programs

30 days holiday

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Leeds is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to manage Key Management services within the Cryptography Lab. The role entails end-to-end health, reliability and continuous improvement while aligning with security policy, regulatory expectations and audits.

You will lead engineering teams, coach staff, and work with Product Owners and stakeholders to drive improvements in resilience, operability and delivery in a high-trust, high-risk environment.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience with delivery accountability.
• Strong understanding of Key Management concepts and KM operating models.
• Experience leading scalable, secure cryptographic services.
• Coaching and performance management of engineering teams.
• Experience in high-risk, regulated environments.
• Ability to work with Product Owners and stakeholders on prioritisation.
• Proven track record in meeting security, regulatory and audit requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, risk and business.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering capability for Key Management services and ensure end-to-end health, reliability and improvement.
• Provide leadership to a team of engineers, overseeing secure design, build and operation per policy.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Risk, Compliance and Audit to boost resilience and delivery.
• Strengthen platform maturity, mentoring teams on design quality and operability.

Skills

Leadership

Key Management

DevOps practices

Security policy

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

HSM lifecycle management

Cryptographic controls

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group in Leeds is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to manage Key Management services within the Cryptography Lab. The role entails end-to-end health, reliability and continuous improvement while aligning with security policy, regulatory expectations and audits.

You will lead engineering teams, coach staff, and work with Product Owners and stakeholders to drive improvements in resilience, operability and delivery in a high-trust, high-risk environment.