Senior Technical Application Specialist - Compliance Engineering - lbg

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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: