Senior Technical Application Specialist – MFA

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Technical Application Specialist specializing in MFA at Lloyds Banking Group. Engineering and supporting authentication solutions across diverse platforms with strong security standards.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,780 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a technical authority and subject-matter expert for MFA and enterprise authentication controls
Lead the design, delivery, and assurance of complex MFA integrations across cloud, SaaS, on-premise, and legacy platforms
Define and own enterprise MFA patterns, standards, and guardrails, ensuring secure and consistent adoption
Review and challenge authentication designs to prevent insecure or non-compliant implementations
Provide senior technical leadership during platform migrations, strategic change, and decommissioning of legacy authentication solutions
Act as an escalation point for high-impact or complex MFA incidents, ensuring swift resolution and reduced risk
Drive operational resilience, availability, and recoverability of MFA services
Support audit, risk, and regulatory activity with credible technical insight and evidence
Partner with architects, product owners, engineers, and security leadership to influence outcomes without formal authority
Mentor engineers and specialists, raising capability and maturity across the IAM and security community
Contribute to MFA strategy, roadmap development, and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience operating as a senior technical specialist in Identity & Access Management or authentication
Deep, hands-on expertise delivering enterprise-scale MFA solutions
Strong understanding of authentication and identity protocols (e.g. SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, Radius)
Proven experience integrating authentication controls across large, complex, and regulated environments
Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic capability across identity, application, and infrastructure layers
Ability to operate credibly across strategy, design, delivery, and operational support
Any experience of these would be great: Exposure to risk-based or conditional access models; Understanding of non-human identities, APIs, or workload authentication patterns; Experience contributing to enterprise security standards or control frameworks

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)Identity & Access Management (IAM)Authentication Protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, Radius)Enterprise-Scale MFA SolutionsTroubleshooting and Diagnostic CapabilityIntegration of Authentication ControlsRisk-Based Access ModelsConditional Access ModelsNon-Human IdentitiesWorkload Authentication Patterns

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringCollaborationInfluencing Outcomes