Senior Technical Application Specialist - Compliance Engineering

Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Technical Application Specialist

SALARY: £72,702-£88,858

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

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours a week – Monday to Friday

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

We’re transforming how Security and Compliance are engineered across Lloyds Banking Group—leveraging data, automation and modern architectures to protect our customers at scale.

Within the Chief Security Office, the Security Data & AI Lab is building next-generation monitoring and compliance capabilities that move beyond traditional controls towards continuous, insight-based assurance.

As a Senior Technical Application Specialist – Compliance Engineering, you’ll play a key role in shaping and advancing regulatory security monitoring capabilities—combining deep technical expertise with an engineering-led approach to deliver scalable, automated and auditable solutions.

You’ll operate at the intersection of security, data engineering and platform delivery, helping drive innovation while ensuring robust regulatory compliance across the enterprise.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, build and evolve regulatory security monitoring and compliance capabilities, ensuring controls are scalable, resilient and continuously verifiable.
• Lead the development of security telemetry and monitoring solutions (including Database Activity Monitoring), enabling effective detection, assurance and regulatory compliance.
• Architect and optimise configuration of our alerting use cases, integrating complex and diverse data sources across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Drive continuous compliance practices, embedding automated control validation, monitoring and evidencing into engineering workflows.
• Apply and promote modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automation, testing and infrastructure and configuration as code to improve quality, speed and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, supporting capability uplift and collaboration across the lab.
• Challenge existing approaches and drive continuous improvement, finding opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability and control effectiveness.

Why join us?

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.

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who brings a strong engineering approach to security and compliance, with a passion for building scalable, automated solutions and driving technical excellence.

You’ll bring:

• Strong experience in security monitoring, telemetry or compliance engineering, including platforms such as Database Activity Monitoring or similar.
• Proven ability to design and deliver data-driven monitoring solutions, including pipelines, ingestion frameworks and automation.
• Deep understanding of security logging, deploying detective configuration and regulatory control environments (e.g. SOX, SWIFT CSP, audit logging).
• Experience working with modern cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure) and distributed architectures.
• Strong problem-solving capability, with a structured and analytical approach to complex technical challenges.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and work across engineering and security teams.

And any of these would be great:

• Strong programming or scripting capability (using Python, SQL or similar).
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, Security monitoring tools or large-scale data analytics frameworks.
• Understanding of distributed system or event-driven architectures.
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other engineers.
• Interest in, or experience with, AI and automation in security and compliance.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

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 also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• 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

Finishing Statement

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. 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. So, 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 creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.