Software Engineer - Security Data and AI in Edinburgh

End Date: Wednesday 15 July 2026

Salary Range: £42,744 - £64,116

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Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share.

Job Description Summary:

Join our engineering team to contribute to the "Security Data and Artificial Intelligence" lab, a part of the "Chief Security Office" (CSO). Lloyds Banking Group is progressing in its digital transformation. Within the Chief Security Office, we focus on keeping customers, colleagues, and assets safe from threats. The sheer pace and scale of change taking place in the data space means there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us! With a modern technology toolset at our fingertips, we'll build more opportunities to improve our data. We'll also apply AI and machine learning capabilities.

Software Engineers are part of a dynamic team, working on the design, development and maintenance of software applications. Working alongside expert engineers to help build high-quality solutions that drive real impact. This role is all about hands-on engineering – you’ll focus on writing phenomenal code, solving technical challenges, and continuously improving our applications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while learning standard methodologies through code reviews and team discussions.
• Work with senior engineers to understand project requirements, fix bugs, and build great software together.
• Keep things running efficiently by maintaining and solving issues in applications.
• Dive into root cause analysis, boost security, and make sure our software stays reliable.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, sharpen your coding game, and grow in an agile environment.
• Stay on top of live service support, keeping an eye out for bugs and making sure everything runs smoothly.
• Maintain an open and adaptive outlook – constantly curious and willing to get involved in lab and platform activities.

If you’re looking for a role where you can make an impact on security, while getting experience with new technologies and challenging yourself, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

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.

What we’re looking for:

The ideal candidate is someone who has experience and technical knowledge with several of the following aspects. We don’t expect every aspect to be covered, and we offer the opportunity to learn at work as part of development opportunities.

• Primary Programming Languages - Python, Bash scripting.
• Experience with designing Agentic AI solutions, preferably in context to Cyber Security.
• Quality Engineering – especially test automation.
• Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) design principles.
• Understanding of Data Lifecycle.
• Collaboration abilities, capable of persuading and coordinating varied teams towards a common goal.
• Some experience of constructing secure systems while following enterprise security and compliance guidelines.
• Ability to communicate a technical concept to a non-technical audience.

And any experience of these would be great:

• Experience in DevOps engineering, ideally GCP, but with a growth mindset if another cloud platform.
• Knowledge of Kubeflow deployments or experience delivering platforms built for AI use cases e.g. through Vertex AI.
• GCP Cloud Composer, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, Terraform, CI/CD using Harness, GitHub, Agile working.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.