At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead MFA integrations and ensure secure authentication across various platforms.
- Company: Join Lloyds Banking Group, a leader in transforming customer experiences.
- Benefits: Enjoy a generous pension, performance bonuses, and 30 days holiday.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Be part of a dynamic team driving innovation in security and identity management.
- Qualifications: Significant experience in Identity & Access Management and enterprise-scale MFA solutions.
The predicted salary is between 72702 - 80780 £ per year.
Overview
Senior MFA Technical Application Specialist (MFA) – Salary £72,702 – £80,780.
The role involves supporting out of hours on a rota basis (1 in 3 weeks).
Working pattern is hybrid, with at least two days per week, or 40% of time, in the Leeds or Manchester office.
The role includes reasonable workplace adjustments to support flexible working in line with policy.
- What you’ll be doing
- Act as a technical authority and subject‑matter expert for MFA and enterprise authentication controls.
- Lead the design, delivery, and assurance of complex MFA integrations across cloud, Saa S, on‑premises, and legacy platforms.
- Define and own enterprise MFA patterns, standards, and guardrails, ensuring secure and consistent adoption.
- Review and challenge authentication designs to prevent insecure or non‑compliant implementations.
- Provide senior technical leadership during platform migrations, strategic change, and decommissioning of legacy authentication solutions.
- Act as an escalation point for high‑impact or complex MFA incidents, ensuring swift resolution and reduced risk.
- Drive operational resilience, availability, and recoverability of MFA services.
- Support audit, risk, and regulatory activity with credible technical insight and evidence.
- Partner with architects, product owners, engineers, and security leadership to influence outcomes without formal authority.
- Mentor engineers and specialists, raising capability and maturity across the IAM and security community.
- Contribute to MFA strategy, roadmap development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- What we’re looking for
- Significant experience operating as a senior technical specialist in Identity & Access Management or authentication.
- Deep, hands‑on expertise delivering enterprise‑scale MFA solutions.
- Strong understanding of authentication and identity protocols (e. g. SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, Radius).
- Proven experience integrating authentication controls across large, complex, and regulated environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic capability across identity, application, and infrastructure layers.
- Ability to operate credibly across strategy, design, delivery, and operational support.
- Exposure to risk‑based or conditional access models.
- Understanding of non‑human identities, APIs, or workload authentication patterns.
- Experience contributing to enterprise security standards or control frameworks.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace.
Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers.
We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
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
- Additional information
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.
We keep your data safe and will only request confidential information during the interview or offer process for background checks.
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