Engineering Lead – Cryptography Lab

Lloyds Banking Group

Engineering Lead responsible for Key Management services in the Cryptography Lab at Lloyds Banking Group. Focused on operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of cryptographic services.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the engineering capability for Key Management services within the Chief Security Office’s Cryptography Lab, taking accountability for their end-to-end operational health, reliability and ongoing improvement
Provide leadership and direction to a team of engineers, ensuring services are designed, built and operated in line with security policy, regulatory expectations and audit requirements
Working closely with Product Owners, Risk, Compliance and Audit stakeholders, drive improvements in engineering effectiveness, service resilience and delivery predictability
Maintain strong control discipline across cryptographic operations and ceremonies such as HSM lifecycle management
Play a key role in strengthening the technical and operational maturity of the platform, coaching teams to enhance design quality, operability and maintainability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior engineering leadership experience with accountability for delivery and operational outcomes
Strong understanding of Key Management concepts, cryptographic controls and KM operating models
Lead the evolution of enterprise key management services, embedding crypto-agility principles and modern DevOps engineering practices to ensure scalable, secure, and adaptable cryptographic controls
Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management
Solid grounding in modern engineering practices and applying them pragmatically in high-risk, regulated environments
Ability to work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders, contributing to prioritisation and trade-off decisions
Experience ensuring services meet security, regulatory and audit requirements with embedded controls
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, risk and business teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Key Managementcryptographic controlsHSM lifecycle managementDevOps engineering practicesengineering effectivenessservice resiliencedelivery predictabilityoperational healthsecurity policy complianceaudit requirements

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentcoachingperformance managementstakeholder managementinfluencecollaborationcommunicationprioritisationtrade-off decision making