Firewall Technical Lead

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Firewall Technical Lead

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATIONS: Leeds, Halifax, Manchester

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 your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

In this pivotal technical SME role within CIO Enabling, you’ll provide the backbone of our operations, ensuring robust infrastructure and security for both internal and external customers. You’ll lead on expanding and optimising existing technologies, integrating toolsets, and driving efficiency across our platforms. Acting as a key point of expertise, you’ll take ownership of project-related activities and play a critical role in safeguarding our services while enabling innovation.

This is your chance to influence the future of banking technology and make a real impact in a fast-evolving environment.

Want to hear more?

As part of this role, you'll share the responsibility of successfully protecting the 1 in 3 people who use our systems in the UK as well as our 10 million active online banking users. Your primary focus will be on ensuring that project and internally initiated service improvement activities are appropriately led through to a successful conclusion, as we continually improve our offering to become the Best bank for Customers. This will involve working with and leading a team of dedicated colleagues, developing them and building their capabilities. In addition, you'll demonstrate an ability and desire to engage with programmes and initiatives throughout the project lifecycle, delivering their requirements. This will include acting to prioritise and resolve issues within the team.

Your accountabilities will include;

• Acting as the key contact point for business engagement for this bank critical infrastructure.
• Planning the implementation of complexed changes.
• Delivering changes of all sizes for our customers.
• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.
• Prioritisation, handling expectations and the ability to guide and influence business decisions.
• Short, medium and long term resource planning along with recruitment of both full time and contractor resourcing.

What about you?

You'll be accountable for day-to-day team management, ideally a networking/firewall SME with experience of allocating work to and coordinating technical specialists. Additionally, you'll have an understanding of networking, firewall and security principles and design concepts.

You'll have experience working to develop long term goals and will act as a key point of contact for resources in the team for their project activity. This may involve identifying, collating, and understanding detailed information on project scope, feasibility, technical accuracy and compliance.

Whilst not essential to have previously worked in Financial Services, having knowledge of regulated environments and an understanding of automation tools (Python, Power Automate, Robot Framework, Ansible, Terraform) would be favourable.
About working for us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
 

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

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.