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Technology Risk Consultant
Apply locations: Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol Harbourside, Leeds, Wellington Place
End Date: Saturday 15 February 2025
Salary Range: £62,874 - £69,860
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. We’re putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management. Empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for managing the risks that they face!
We are seeking an IT Systems Risk Specialist to join the Risk Specialist Centre of Excellence. It involves supporting robust risk management aligned with the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). This will include giving our leaders and Risk Owners businesses advice on their risk appetite decisions, safely, and at pace.
Candidates will need a strong understanding of current technology and a passion for its practical application and risk management. Prepare to challenge conventions to create the best possible experience for both customers and staff.
You'll have deep operational risk knowledge and provide insight and oversight. You'll contribute to implementing risk policy, appetite, and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Technology Risk Consultant
SALARY: £65,000-75,000 pa
LOCATIONS: Bristol, Birmingham, Chester, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds or Manchester
London-based candidates might be considered, in exceptional circumstances.
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 one of our office sites listed above.
About This Opportunity
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 want to make sure technology risk is described in the right way, owned by the right people and gets fed into the right decision-making forums.
How Can You Help Us Make This Happen?
We are looking to build our team, and are looking for IT Risk Consultants at leadership level and at team IT Risk specialist level.
For all our roles, we’re looking for someone capable, articulate and motivated, with:
* A strong understanding of current technology (e.g. AI, Digital Ledger Technology and Quantum)
* Experience of its practical application and risks
* A passion for improving risk outcomes for our customers
What Will You Be Doing?
* Building relationships with stakeholders across the bank, acting as a trusted advisor to provide pragmatic advice to support key tech risk decisions;
* Influencing our IT community to build high availability, reliability and performance into the tech they are delivering;
* Helping to automate our tech controls, to allow our engineers to deliver and run their solutions safely;
* Using data to assess risk, and to identify emerging risks;
* Reporting on tech risk in a way that makes sense to our stakeholders;
* Making sure our policies and practices reflect new tech opportunities and threats
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Technology risk experience:
* Expertise in technology, covering key areas such as technology asset lifecycle management, configuration and build management, technology service management (including capacity, change, problem, and incident management), technology architecture and design including cloud services.
* Strong, working knowledge of IT Risk Frameworks (e.g. ITIL, COBIT etc.) and ability to identify, assess and manage technology risk across platforms.
Effective communication skills:
* Strong, influencing and leadership skills with experience working with technology leads and engineering teams, and the ability to contribute credibly to technical conversations.
Future vision and understanding of technology and risks:
* Demonstrable curiosity and understanding of the emerging technologies shaping the risk landscape (inc. AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum).
What’s In It For You
You'll have both opportunity and profile. We'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression in a leading digital organisation.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* 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
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
So, if you have a desire to work in a challenging role in a dynamic environment, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.
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