Software Engineer (Insider Risk Team) in Gildersome

Salary: £48,987 - £54,430

Location(s): Edinburgh or Leeds

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 our Edinburgh or Leeds office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity: At Lloyds Banking Group, we're moving to the next stages of our digital transformation, and it's our job within the Chief Security Office (CSO) to ensure that we keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe. The Insider Risk Management team, within the Chief Security Office, are a collaborative mix of insider analysts, who investigate cases, and engineers, who build and improve behavioural detection capabilities. Together, our team delivers the Group's Insider Strategy, coordinating input from the Group's safeguarding community, ensuring we make data‑led decisions and lead on industry discussions. As part of this, we're inviting software engineers to join us and grow our team's capabilities, even if you're from non‑security backgrounds.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop user‑facing tools to make our insider analysts' user experience better when managing workflows, case history and triaging data which could indicate insider activity.
• Design and build insider tools to help detect potential events.
• Explore and evaluate other vendor solutions to improve our overall insider tool set.
• Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements, using automation and analytics to improve the efficiency of our insider risk management program using agile methodology and customer‑focused tools and techniques.
• Share your CD/CI skills with your peers—this team is a great entry point into the security field, and we've a mix of technical experience that we cross‑skill together.

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:

• Ideally 4+ years experience in developing high quality, testable, reusable and modular code with programming languages, frameworks, and technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, Java and related API frameworks.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs into dynamic and data‑driven front ends with ReactJS and NextJS.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure, with scope to use container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Someone who plays with coding challenges to demonstrate logical reasoning and continuous learning.

And any experience of these would be great:

• Ethical and responsible approach to AI and machine learning to leverage dynamic detection of anomalous behaviour amongst large data sets.
• GIT source code management and running concurrent change on a large code base.
• Experience in infrastructure as code.
• Experience in complex SQL queries.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines.

What’s in it for you? You’ll join a team that’s continually evolving its skill base in the largest FinTech. This environment welcomes diverse thinking, especially when speaking up and building on each other’s ideas. If you’re not already in a security role, this is a great entry point to join, with plenty of opportunities to use your skills to keep people safe and secure.

You’ll automatically join our Security Engineering Guild that rewards proactive learning, offers gamified competitions and achievements, helps fund certifications, offers 20% projects for anyone wishing to collaborate with other security and software engineers or developers, and plenty of chances to test yourself in capture the flag competitions, even if you’re new to it.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. We recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion: We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

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

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.