Engineering Lead (Cryptography lab)

Join our Chief Security Office's Cryptography Lab as an Engineering Lead. You will be responsible for the end-to-end operational health, reliability, and ongoing improvement of Key Management services.

About Lloyds

• Experience driving engineering maturity, reliability and operational excellence at scale
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient and highly available platforms across the full lifecycle
• USD 92,701 - 109,060

Responsibilities

• You will lead a team of engineers, ensuring services are designed, built, and operated in line with security policy, regulatory expectations, and audit requirements.
• You will also drive improvements in engineering effectiveness, service resilience, and delivery predictability, while maintaining strong control discipline across cryptographic operations.
• Additionally, you will play a key role in strengthening the technical and operational maturity of the platform and fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
• Lead the engineering capability for Key Management services within the Chief Security Office’s Cryptography Lab, ensuring operational health and ongoing improvement.
• Provide leadership and direction to a team of engineers, ensuring services are designed, built, and operated in line with security policy and regulatory expectations.
• Drive improvements in engineering effectiveness, service resilience, and delivery predictability, while maintaining strong control discipline across cryptographic operations.
• Experience ensuring services meet security, regulatory and audit requirements with embedded controls
• Lead the evolution of enterprise key management services, embedding crypto‑agility principles and modern DevOps engineering practices to ensure scalable, secure, and adaptable cryptographic controls
• Strong understanding of Key Management concepts, cryptographic controls and KM operating models

Requirements

• Solid grounding in modern engineering practices and applying them pragmatically in high‑risk, regulated environments
• Ability to work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders, contributing to prioritisation and trade‑off decisions
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management
• Senior engineering leadership experience with accountability for delivery and operational outcomes
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, risk and business teams
• Knowledge of cryptographic ceremonies, HSM lifecycle management or related operational practices

Preferred

• Background in Financial Services, Financial Markets or similarly regulated environments