Security Specialist

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK banking institution is seeking a Security Specialist to drive their security technology strategy and collaborate with product owners and engineers. The role demands hands-on expertise in IT and Cyber technologies while fostering communication skills to translate complex concepts. You will ensure security foundations remain robust and future-ready, playing a key role in safeguarding organizational integrity. This position is hybrid, allowing flexibility in managing work patterns.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award based on performance

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Passionate about acquiring insights and applying them to build customer and business value.
• Demonstrable ability to compare technologies and identify best-fit capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Shape and maintain understanding of security capability and technology landscape.
• Craft and implement security technologies.
• Perform technical product assessments for security tooling.

Skills

Security experience across at least two security domains

Hands-on IT, Cloud, and/or Cyber technologies implementation

Outstanding communication skills

Ability to distil complex information

Job description

Job Title

Security Specialist

Salary

£70,929 - £78,810

Location

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.
• Play a key role in crafting and implementing our security technologies.
• 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.
• Use industry frameworks, standards, and policies to develop opportunities and value for customers, supporting their needs.
• Interact with customers at all levels and connect with vendors to understand roadmaps, identifying chances for technology improvements, consolidation, and simplification.

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.

Benefits

• 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

Company Culture

With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.