Senior Technology Risk Specialist

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At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose - to Help Britain prosper. We're focused on making a difference to our customers, businesses and communities as the UK's largest Retail, Digital and Commercial bank. To achieve our aim of being the best bank for customers we're also undergoing a £3bn transformation to further improve products/services and enable sustainable growth.

About Chief Information & Security Business Risk: We love to do things differently here. We genuinely encourage our employees to challenge and innovative as our technologies and their associated risks evolve. Our aim is to become the leading 1st Line Risk Function in Financial Services in the UK. Working collaboratively to guide, support and challenge on all risk related matters, we're responsible for the successful delivery of the technology risk agenda against internal and regulatory requirements. It's a massively diverse team with a rich tapestry of backgrounds, cultures and working patterns with a 50:50 gender split - it's what keeps our thinking fresh! Together we'll make it possible. And we're looking to add to this with another highly motivated Technology Risk professional to work at the heart of our function.

Sound like your kind of place? You'd be operating at a senior level - partnering at Director level and above and deputise for Senior Risk Leads. You'll contribute to both strategic and operational decision making by providing insight, challenge and support. Here's what you'd focus on:

Challenging and providing input into new agile approaches being explored by LBG and performing risk reviews to ensure they remain within Group's risk appetite

Leading a programme of IT risk reviews providing insightful commentary and proposed risk mitigation actions while ensuring the LBG Risk Management Framework requirements are met.

Initiating, leading and delivering change programmes to achieve continuous improvements to our processes and systems.

About you... You're someone who'll bring a shared passion for our values of putting customers first, keeping it simple, and making a difference together. With a gift for problem-solving along with the inquisitiveness to challenge constructively and innovative you'll keep driving improvements while learning. You'll be able to build strong, collaborative, relationships within the function, customer areas and across the matrix of the organisation. Finally the ability to deliver high quality verbal/written key messages for use at senior executive level or by external parties (e.g. Regulators). This is what we'd be looking for as a minimum:

You'll have an appropriate experience of IT/Tech Risk previously held in middle-senior manager positions

This includes knowledge of the operational and regulatory complexities across strategic, operational and change perspectives.

You'll demonstrate a good understanding of industry standards, control frameworks (e.g.COBIT), technology landscape and key IT risk areas.

And a decent understanding across a number of other key areas (but not limited to):

Infrastructure Technologies - Middleware/Storage/Networks/Mainframes

IT resilience

Cloud Services, DevOps

Suppliers management/governance processes and outsourced 3rd party systems

Management of IT Incidents/Problems/Changes and experience supporting live service material events

In return We have the scale and reach to provide you with the opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and ful?lling career. Offering flexible and hybrid working patterns we believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you... We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process. We're simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit! You'll also receive a benefits package which includes:

An annual performance related award and a flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%, Private Medical cover and Share schemes

30 days leave plus bank holidays and volunteering opportunities

[N.B. London salary c£76k-c£95k, Edinburgh/Halifax c£65k-c£81k with some travel to London] So, if you have the skills we're seeking and you're looking for your next move in Technology Risk, then we'd love to hear from you...