End Date
Sunday 30 August 2026
Salary Range
£92,701 - £109,060
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
The Senior Enterprise Architect will lead on the architectural strategy & development to support the Platform they are aligned to. They will be an expert technologist that supports their Platform(s) define the strategic north star and technology roadmaps associated to these. They can be a Line Manager or an Individual Contributor, requiring strong stakeholder management skills and strong domain knowledge.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Product Security Architect
SALARY: From £XX dependent on experience and location LOCATION(S): Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh or London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in an office site
About this opportunity We’re looking for a technically deep and forward-thinking Product Security Architect to join our Enterprise Security Architecture team. This is a senior role that combines application security engineering, vulnerability management and developer engagement into a unified product security capability.
You will work alongside engineering, platform teams and product owners to ensure security is designed in from the start. You will own how we find, prioritise and drive the remediation of risk across the application estate and be security’s primary voice inside engineering.
About CSO
The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering the Group's vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and customers from security threats. We define and communicate the Group’s security strategy and provide critical enterprise security services that both protect the organisation and enable its digital transformation agenda.
We are evolving rapidly – investing in our people, tools and practises to stay ahead of an increasingly complex threat landscape and a fast-moving technology estate. The security architecture function sits at the core of this to provide thought leadership and cross-cutting influence that keep the Group’s security posture aligned to its ambitions.
The day to day
- Defining and owning the target states for application security and vulnerability management and solving complex architectural problems
- Acting as a trusted security partner to engineering – fluent in their language and focused on unblocking rather than gatekeeping
- Performing research and development in collaboration with other security teams to ensure the security architecture is staying ahead of challenges and the Group’s technology transformation agenda
- Describing and helping to manage the complexity of the Group’s Enterprise Security Architecture and associated interlocks
- Supporting strategic change within the Group, specifically security change where you’ll take a leading architectural role in shaping and supervising initiatives
- Staying ahead of emerging product security challenges – including AI-integrated application risk, software supply chain security and cloud-native attack surfaces – and
representing the security architecture function with confidence in senior stakeholder forums
- Producing your own artefacts and managing your own delivery dates; ensuring they integrate into the wider bank reference architecture and Group Security Architecture
What we are looking for
- Deep hands-on experience with application security capabilities and tooling and the ability to integrate them within modern CICD pipelines
- Solid understanding of secure software development practises across the full SDLC, including agile and DevSecOps delivery models
- Experience owning or significantly contributing to a vulnerability management programme at scale – including prioritisation methodology, metrics design and executive reporting
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with engineering and product teams – you are someone that engineering and developers want in the room, not someone they feel audited by
- Experience with cloud-native application architectures – containers, microservices, serverless – and the security considerations specific to these environments
- Familiarity with AI-integrated application risk – understanding the security implications of LLM integration, RAG architectures and AI-assisted development tooling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – able to translate technical risk into business language and vice versa
What good looks like in this role
The right person for this role will be someone who makes engineering teams better at security – not by telling them what to do, but by making the secure path the easy path.
Within six months, you will have a clear view of the application security posture across the estate, a prioritised list of the most material risks, and a set of early relationships with engineering leads that give you influence over how those risks are addressed.
Within twelve months, you will have measurably shifted how the Group approaches product security – with tooling and processes embedded in pipelines, a functioning champions network, and a risk-based vulnerability management approach that the business trusts and acts on.
About working for us Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!
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
- Drives architectural strategy for a platform and assists in its development and/or delivery , in line with the Technology strategy and the Business Unit strategy.
- Contributes to the definition of architecture roadmaps, guardrails and patterns to drive change over the medium and long term against our Technology Strategy. Roadmaps meet the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services .
- Acts as a contributor to the Business Unit strategy by providing architectural, technical and business design input to the Platform leadership.
- Integrates business design, customer outcomes, a deep understanding of the platform architecture and the Technology Strategy to drive the right enterprise outcome.
- Advocates for change management in the platform to enable major change outcomes, taking responsibility for key initiatives .
- Guides governing policies and participates in governance forums to ensure roadmaps, guardrails and patterns are effectively adhered to, in line with Group and Technology strategies.
- Acts as business partner to senior internal business leaders to ensure technology delivers on business outcomes .
- Conducts external research to stay atop of industry best practice including technology, customer and products trends , utilising this knowledge when delivering business design activities to enable overall corporate strategy.
- Represents the business in industry and professional forums to promote the value of the company brand.
- Capable of leading a team of architects to ensure architecture is driven in line with group and technology strategy.
- Coaches and mentors others throughout the organisation and invests in own personal development, whilst supporting formal development frameworks for the platform.
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.
