PRINCIPAL LEAD ARCHITECT

Job details

At Lloyds Banking Group we are committed to putting our customers first and a big part of that commitment is ensuring all our customers are protected from the ever increasing risk of cybercrime. As the threat landscape continues to evolve we want to ensure all our 30m customers can conduct their business in a safe and secure environment. We are continuing to invest in our Cyber Security & Risk programmes and as a result an opportunity has arisen for you to join the Cyber Threat team. 

As Principle Lead Architect you will be responsible for key contributions into the IT Security Architecture of systems that support the brands and business units that form Lloyds Banking Group. You'll ensure the effective delivery of the mid to long term enterprise security strategy via strategic programmes that protect the LBG IT estate from misuse or attack. You'll be accountable for the quality of the conceptual architectural components and building blocks that will be used by the solution design team to construct compliant, secure and trustworthy IT systems. This is a role that matters requiring credible senior leadership qualities combined with deep and broad specialist skills in both security and technical domains. 

You will drive security strategy through strategic business initiatives and major programmes, validate and identify delivery opportunities for the mid to long term security strategies and be accountable for validating and QA of the architectural components and building blocks that will be used by the solution design team to construct compliant, secure and trustworthy IT systems. 

You'll have the opportunity to lead the development and communication to senior business stakeholders of scope and solution options to support the realisation of the business and customer proposition and ensure that architecture decisions are compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g. PCI-DSS/SoX) and internal policies. 


Given the nature of this role we need you to have experience managing senior business stakeholders, have previously been a leader and mentor across security teams and be a technical expert across a wide spectrum of security disciplines such as Identity & Access Management, Data, Application or Infrastructure Security. You'll also be accountable for ensuring IT security strategies and roadmaps have a clear and traceable requirement to a business need or strategy, so keen business acumen is essential as it enables innovation and competitive advantage through security technologies. 

We would expect you to be able to evidence previous successful delivery of an IT Security or Cyber strategy/roadmap in a complex technical and shared business environment with a proven ability to achieve buy-in from senior business and technical leaders and a comprehensive understanding of how controls protecting data, application and networks can be integrated into the system protection architecture. 

Finally we'll need you to have a good industry understanding of the regulatory and technology landscape that drive best practice security frameworks supporting IT strategies such as Mobility, Cloud and Virtualisation. 

In return we offer an excellent remuneration and benefits package, a flexible working environment and the chance to broaden and deepen your technical expertise and advance your career in one of the UK's largest financial institutions. 

If you have the skills and dedication we require we would love to hear from you…