Technology Risk Consultant

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Job Description

Technology Risk Consultant

SALARY: £67,023 - £54,000]

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

We’re redefining how technology is delivered and run across Lloyds Banking Group, adopting innovative technologies and moving faster to better serve our customers.

To do this safely, our technology must be resilient, available and responsive. We need to understand where our technology risks sit, whether our controls are keeping us safe, and how the landscape changes as we continue our transformation!

As a Technology Risk Consultant within our Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems Risk team, you'll help provide independent oversight of technology resilience risks across the Group. You'll work closely with Infrastructure, Engineering and Platform teams, supporting risk-informed decision-making and helping ensure controls are operating effectively to manage material risks!

You'll bring clarity to complex technology and risk topics, helping stakeholders understand risks, assess control effectiveness and make well-informed decisions through appropriate governance channels.

What you'll be doing

• Support the effective management of IT Systems Risk across technology platforms, providing insight, challenge and advice to Risk Owners, Control Owners and Control Offices.

• Review and assess issues, risk events and controls, applying sound judgement and constructive challenge to support effective risk management and governance outcomes.

• Analyse operational and risk data from multiple sources to identify trends, themes and emerging risks, producing clear and decision-ready insights.

• Support the embedding of controls across technology platforms, helping teams align with Group policies and standards and identify opportunities for automation.

• Contribute to a forward-looking view of technology risk, considering resilience, change activity, third-party dependencies and emerging technologies.

• Build effective relationships across technology, operations, risk and governance teams to support consistent and practical risk management.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing in our people, technology and data is at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers and businesses.

We're creating a values-led culture where colleagues can make a real difference, develop their careers and help shape the future of financial services. You'll be supported with opportunities to learn, grow and build your expertise while working with talented colleagues across the Group.

What you'll need

• Experience supporting technology risk management activities, providing insight, challenge and guidance to enable informed risk decisions.

• Ability to analyse complex information and use data to identify trends, themes and emerging risks, translating findings into clear recommendations.

• Knowledge of modern technology environments, including cloud platforms, infrastructure, networks, databases, storage and modern application architectures.

• Experience working across technology, operations, risk and governance functions within a complex organisational environment.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective relationships and influence outcomes through collaboration and constructive challenge.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining technical and risk-related concepts in a clear and accessible way.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience working within IT Systems control domains such as reliable engineering, reliability and redundancy, asset management, change management, capacity management, incident management or disaster recovery.

• Understanding of technology resilience and operational resilience risk management.

• Knowledge of emerging technologies and their potential impact on the technology risk landscape, including AI, Digital Ledger Technology and Quantum technologies.

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 neurodivergent 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.

Benefits

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A generous pension contribution.

• Discretionary performance award.

• Private medical benefit.

• Flexible benefits package, including options that support your lifestyle and wellbeing.

• Access to learning, development and career growth opportunities across the Group.

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

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.