End Date
Friday 07 August 2026
Salary Range
£116,535 - £137,100
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JOB TITLE : Head of Control
SALARY: £116,535 - £137,100
LOCATION(S): London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations
About this opportunity
We're looking for an experienced technology risk and control leader to help shape the future of our control environment!
As Head of Control, you'll play a critical role in helping us rethink how risk and control operate within a modern technology organisation. Rather than relying on traditional, retrospective controls, you'll help design and embed automated, preventative and real-time controls that support safe, resilient and efficient delivery across our technology landscape!
Working at the intersection of Technology, Engineering, Data, AI and Risk, you'll partner with senior leaders to ensure controls are embedded into products, platforms and processes from the outset. You'll help shape the evolution of our control environment as we continue our journey towards cloud-native technologies, AI-enabled services and modern engineering practices.
We're looking for someone who combines deep technical risk and control expertise with strong communication and collaborator management skills. You'll be equally comfortable discussing control automation with engineering teams, influencing senior technology leaders and helping the business understand how effective controls can support innovation and growth.
This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to influence strategy, drive meaningful change at scale and lead a high-performing team across one of the UK's largest and most complex technology environments.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re a forward-thinking, fast-moving organisation that’s transforming finance into a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you'll be doing
Leading the development of a modern first-line control environment aligned to technology, engineering and product delivery practices.
Embedding control-by-design principles across architecture, software engineering, cloud platforms and technology transformation programmes.
Driving the adoption of automated, preventative and real-time controls that improve resilience, reduce manual intervention and support faster delivery.
Partnering with Technology, Data and AI teams to ensure control frameworks remain effective as new technologies and capabilities are adopted.
Supporting large-scale technology modernisation, including cloud adoption, platform transformation and migration from legacy environments.
Using data, analytics and insight-led monitoring to improve control effectiveness and support proactive risk management.
Simplifying, standardising and future-proofing controls while maintaining strong governance and risk outcomes.
Partnering with CIOs, Platform Leaders, Engineering Leads and business collaborators to influence decision-making and strengthen control outcomes.
Leading, developing and inspiring a high-performing Control Office team.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you'll bring
Essential skills and experience
Significant experience leading first-line technology risk and control teams within technology-led organisations.
Deep understanding of modern technology environments, including cloud platforms, engineering practices, automation and software delivery.
Experience designing and embedding automated, preventative and real-time controls within complex technology environments.
Strong understanding of technology risk, operational resilience and control frameworks across cloud, platform and engineering ecosystems.
Experience working with emerging technologies, including data and AI-enabled services, and understanding the associated control and governance considerations.
Proven ability to communicate complex technical and control concepts to a wide range of audiences and influence senior collaborators across Business, Technology and Risk.
Experience supporting large-scale technology transformation, including cloud adoption and migration from legacy technologies.
Strong leadership capability with experience building and developing high-performing teams through change.
And any experience of this would be really useful
Experience operating within highly digital, engineering-led or organisations.
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS or other major cloud providers.
Experience embedding controls within AI, machine learning or advanced analytics environments.
Experience implementing technology-enabled control monitoring and testing solutions.
Experience helping organisations modernise legacy technology environments and future-proof controls.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.
