At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead application security and vulnerability management, ensuring security is integrated from the start.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking enterprise focused on innovative security architecture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a generous pension, performance bonuses, share schemes, and 30 days holiday.
- Other info: Be part of a team that values wellbeing and offers excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping security initiatives in a dynamic tech environment.
- Qualifications: Hands-on experience in application security and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Overview
Senior Product Security Architect to join the Enterprise Security Architecture team.
This role combines application security engineering, vulnerability management and developer engagement into a unified product security capability.
You will work with engineering, platform teams and product owners to ensure security is built in from the start and to lead remediation of risk across the application estate.
The security architecture function provides thought leadership and cross‑cutting influence to align the Group’s security posture with its ambitions.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the target states for application security and vulnerability management, solving sophisticated architectural problems.
- Act as a trusted security partner to engineering, communicating in their language and focusing on enabling progress rather than gatekeeping.
- Conduct research and development with other security teams to keep the security architecture ahead of challenges and the technology transformation agenda.
- Describe and help lead the complexity of the Group’s Enterprise Security Architecture and interlocks.
- Support strategic change within the Group, taking a leading architectural role in shaping and supervising security initiatives.
- Stay ahead of emerging product security challenges, including AI‑integrated application risk, software supply chain security and cloud‑native attack surfaces.
- Represent the security architecture function in senior stakeholder forums with confidence.
- Produce artefacts and manage delivery dates, ensuring alignment with the wider reference architecture and Group Security Architecture.
- What we’re looking for / Qualifications
- Deep hands‑on experience with application security capabilities and tooling, and the ability to integrate them within modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of secure software development practices across the full SDLC, including agile and Dev Sec Ops.
- 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.
- Experience with cloud‑native application architectures (containers, microservices, serverless) and the security considerations for these environments.
- Familiarity with AI‑integrated application risk, including 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.
Benefits
- 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
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Senior Product Security Architect in Leeds employer: Lloyds Bank plc
Lloyds Banking Group is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Cardiff that fosters professional growth and collaboration. With a competitive salary package, generous benefits including a robust pension scheme and flexible working options, employees are empowered to thrive both personally and professionally. The company prioritises inclusivity and well-being, ensuring that all team members can achieve their full potential while making a meaningful impact in the SME banking sector.
