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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Security Consultant

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our office location.

About this opportunity

Cyber Security sits at the heart of our business providing the Group with a secure operating environment, safe from malicious attacks. It is a dynamic and constantly evolving world where your experience and efforts can deliver tangible results to the safety of a huge company and over 26m customers.

This role sits within our Security Vulnerability Services Lab and our aim is to create even higher quality security vulnerability services and output, which our business teams can trust to give them reliable, relevant, and timely security vulnerability data.

As a Security Consultant, you will:

• Ensure that the vulnerability data that feeds our Lab products are of quality, address our customer needs and is fit for purpose.

• Understand and analyse high volume sophisticated data, to optimally derive relevant insights.

• Work with Squad leads and product owners to understand and deliver work to achieve product feature requirements.

• Work with data visualisation tools such as PowerBI to present data in a clear and insightful way

• Play a part in designing end to end products and services according to the needs of the customer.

• Provide security consultancy on different vulnerability data types to support colleagues to respond to customer queries.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrable experience in the field of cyber security with a demonstrable understanding of the processes, practices, and tools applied in a large IT environment.

• Strong data analysis skills, with the ability to consume large amounts of data and identify key trends and themes to make relevant security-based recommendations.

• Excellent problem-solving skills to make sense of sophisticated, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Strong customer leadership skills to handle conflicting priorities by facilitating discussion and resolution, persuading customers to consider alternative views.

• Experience of cyber security industry frameworks eg MITRE ATT&CK, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.

• Ability to collaborate optimally within a team of varied skills and technical knowledge

Any experience of these would be useful

• Knowledge and experience of Vulnerability Management

• A Cyber-Security related qualification such as CISM, CISSP, or similar

• Experience in SQL to write queries to retrieve specified data

• A qualification in statistics or mathematics

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 performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.