Description
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Insider Risk Team)
SALARY: £48,987 – £54,430
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh or Leeds office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
About this opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re moving to the next stages of our digital transformation, and it’s our job within the Chief Security Office (CSO) to ensure that we keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe.
The Insider Risk Management team, within the Chief Security Office, are a collaborative mix between insider analysts, who investigate cases, and engineers, who build and improve behavioural detection capabilities. Together, our team deliver the Group's Insider Strategy, coordinating input from the Group’s safeguarding community, ensuring we make data led decisions and lead on industry discussions. As part of this, we're inviting software engineers to join us and grow our team’s capabilities, even if you’re from non-security backgrounds.
What you’ll be doing
1. Develop user-facing tools to make our insider analysts user experience better when managing workflows, case history and triaging data which could indicate insider activity.
2. Design and build insider tools to help detect potential events. An exceptionally rewarding flex when using your software engineering skills to deliver value.
3. Explore and evaluate other vendor solutions to improve our overall insider tool set. We encourage you to challenge how we do things today, bringing in bold ideas.
4. Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements, using automation and analytics to improve the efficiency of our insider risk management program using agile methodology and customer focused tools and techniques.
5. Sharing your CD/CI skills with your peers – this team is a great entry point into the security field, and we’ve a mix of technical experience that we cross skill together. We participate in hackathons and fun tech days with other teams to grow and stay sharp.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for?
6. Do you have some, yet not all of these skills? Apply anyway.
7. Ideally 4+ years experience in developing high quality, testable, re-usable and modular code with programming languages, frameworks, and technologies. This could include things like JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, Java and related API frameworks.
8. Experience integrating RESTful APIs into dynamic and data driven front ends with ReactJS and NextJS.
9. People who aren’t scared by data analysis. We’re after your techniques to model use cases and detect anomalies or outliers using Data Flow and Big Query in GCP, AWS or Azure.
10. Understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure, with scope to use container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
11. Someone who plays with coding challenges to demonstrate logical reasoning and continuous learning.
And any experience of these would be great
12. Ethical and responsible approach to AI and machine learning to leverage dynamic detection of anomalous behaviour amongst large data sets
13. GIT source code management and running concurrent change on a large code base
14. Experience in infrastructure as code
15. Experience in complex SQL queries
16. Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
17. Experience in CI/CD pipelines
What’s in it for you?
18. You’ll join a team who’s continuously evolving its skill base in the largest FinTech. This environment welcomes diverse thinking, especially when speaking up and building on each other’s ideas.
19. If you’re not already in a security role, this is a great entry point to join, with plenty of opportunities to use your skills to keep people safe and secure.
20. You’ll automatically join our Security Engineering Guild that rewards proactive learning, offers gamified competitions and achievements, helps fund certifications, offers 20% projects for anyone wishing to collaborate with other security and software engineers or developers, and plenty of chances to test yourself in capture the flag competitions, even if you’re new to it.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Work with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
21. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
22. An annual performance-related bonus
23. Share schemes including free shares
24. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
25. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
26. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.