Senior Software Engineer - Cyber Security Config Assurance in Leeds

Salary: £63,152 - £78,940 per annum

Location: Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh

Hours: Full-time - 35 hours

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you'll be doing:

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Assured Build team, engineering and scaling secure, automated solutions across LBG. This role is focused on building the engineering capability that underpins Assured Build – building automation, integrating security baselines into engineering workflows, and enabling secure-by-design delivery by embedding Security Relevant Configuration (SRC) controls into code, pipelines, and platform tooling. You’ll develop and enhance services that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and increase coverage of security assurance across infrastructure and software.

Working in an agile, DevOps-led environment, you’ll contribute to enterprise-scale automation (including CI/CD integration, tooling, and data-driven reporting) to deliver resilient, scalable, and frictionless security outcomes.

We support teams by:

• Assuring security configurations in both static build artefacts and CI/CD pipelines
• Driving greater automation, consistency, and reuse of security artefacts
• Embedding security earlier into the engineering lifecycle

This is an opportunity to work at the innovative forefront of secure-by-design engineering, helping to embed security seamlessly into how technology is built and delivered.

Why Join us?

If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it.

What we're looking for:

We’re looking for engineers who are curious, proactive, and motivated to continuously improve how security is delivered. You’ll bring:

• Experience in software engineering and DevOps practices, ideally within a large-scale or enterprise environment
• Experience with scripting and programming languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, PowerShell) and working with pipelines or automation tooling
• Hands-on technical experience with the ability to write, fix, and improve code
• A broad understanding of cyber security domains, including cloud security (Azure and/or GCP)
• An outcome-focused approach, with the ability to deliver end-to-end solutions while maintaining attention to detail
• A strong understanding of secure-by-design principles across the development lifecycle
• A passion for automating repetitive tasks and improving engineering efficiency
• Clear understanding of containerisation technologies and associated tooling (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and repository-based workflows (e.g. GitHub or similar)

And any experience of these would be great:

• Exposure to vulnerability scanning, configuration assurance, or security tooling
• Working with databases and data-driven solutions
• Building automation or workflow solutions (e.g. Power Platform)

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. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neuro-divergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers – just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

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