Hybrid Technology Risk Consultant

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Technology Risk Consultant
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £65,385 - £72,650 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leeds, United Kingdom

About the role

• Technology Risk Consultant at Lloyds Banking Group enhancing technology risk management and decision-making strategies. Enabling systems resilience and responsiveness for customer service improvement.

Responsibilities

• We are transforming the way we deliver and run our technology here at Lloyds Banking Group!
• We’re developing creative solutions, adopting cutting-edge technologies and moving fast to better serve our customers.
• To do all this we need to manage risk better.
• We don’t want risk to be a set of processes, we want to bring to life the pros and cons of tech decision-making, and allow senior leaders to really understand the impact of tech risk to their customers.
• We want to use operational data to tell us how we’re managing risk in real-time, and whether our exposure is going up or down.

Requirements

• Deep operational expertise aligned to IT systems risk across a financial services group.
• Detailed knowledge of key technology risks facing financial services, with proven ability to assess and manage risk, set policy, design controls, provide assurance, and balance risk and reward.
• Practical expertise in one or more of the following: Designing, developing, and securing mobile applications across platforms, with a strong grasp of mobile-specific failure modes and app store compliance.
• Understanding the design and resilience of distributed network infrastructures, including traffic routing, fault tolerance, redundancy, and failover strategies.
• Applied knowledge across technology asset lifecycle management, configuration and build management, service management (capacity, change, problem, incident), architecture and design (including cloud services), engineering and application development (including DevOps), resilience, networking, shared responsibility models, storage, databases, operating systems, virtualisation, containerisation, and mobile.
• Curiosity and understanding of emerging technologies shaping the risk landscape (AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum).
• Deep subject matter expertise in operational risk frameworks and technologies used across financial and non-financial services.
• Strong understanding of laws, regulations, industry standards, and technical practices.
• Experience developing and owning group-level policy, setting risk appetite, and monitoring group exposure.
• Ability to set control objectives and performance indicators.
• Timely decision-making that balances trade-offs and aligns with business strategy.
• Experience assimilating complex data to solve problems and make relevant recommendations.
• Ability to interpret new regulation, emerging risks, and tech innovations with foresight.
• Experience as a Risk Specialist business partner, collaborating with Risk Owners, Control Owners, and Control Offices.
• Understanding of the roles across all lines of defence and ability to act as the primary Operational Risk expert.
• Experience building effective, data-led Operational Risk control objectives, including with external regulators.
• Future-focused mindset with a clear line of sight to Group Strategy.
• Ability to inspire and coach others, fostering inclusive collaboration and building teams aligned to our Group Strategy and Purpose.

Benefits

• 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