Senior Technical Application Specialist – Compliance Engineering

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Technical Application Specialist focused on compliance engineering and regulatory security monitoring. Transforming security practices at Lloyds Banking Group with data-driven solutions and automated compliance.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,878 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing regulatory security monitoring and compliance solutions, leveraging modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and automation. Proven ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement in security and compliance capabilities.

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Security MonitoringCompliance EngineeringDatabase Activity MonitoringCloud Platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)DevSecOps Practices

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Hard Skills

Security TelemetryData-Driven Monitoring SolutionsSecurity LoggingPythonSQLCI/CD PipelinesInfrastructure as CodeAutomationEvent-Driven ArchitecturesLarge-Scale Data Analytics

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingMentorshipInfluencing Stakeholders

Tools & Technologies

Observability PlatformsSecurity Monitoring ToolsIngestion FrameworksDistributed ArchitecturesAudit Logging

Industry Keywords

Regulatory Control EnvironmentsSOXSWIFT CSPContinuous ComplianceAutomated Control Validation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

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