Data & Tooling Technical Analyst

Edinburgh, Midlothian
Lloyds Banking Group

JOB TITLE: Data & Tooling Technical Analyst

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at our office location listed above.

About this opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group we’re driven by a clear purpose: to Help Britain Prosper. Within the Chief Security Office, our role is to protect the Group and our customers from security threats, and to enable the Group’s businesses to make change to their services safely and quickly.

We are currently changing our lab ways of working to adapt to changing customer needs, to changing technology and to changing business threats and opportunities. Our aim is to create even higher quality security vulnerability services and output, which our business teams can trust to give them reliable, relevant, and timely security vulnerability data. Therefore, we are looking for skilled individuals to become part of our team. In this role you would primarily be building and supporting data pipelines which are used by Cyber and Vulnerability Analysts to enable them to prepare and draw insights from threat and vulnerability data and share this data with customers across the Group.

You will also play a crucial role in the continuous development of our security vulnerability management capability. This role offers a distinctive blend of technical expertise and supporting the delivery of customer outcome focused change.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the vulnerability data that feeds our Lab products are of quality, address our customer needs and is fit for purpose.

• Understand high volume complex data, to effectively derive meaningful insights.

• Be innovative in the way we design technology, how we build systems and drive automation.

• Create, maintain and improve the vulnerability data pipelines that feed the Lab products.

• Work with Squad leads to understand and deliver work to achieve product feature requirements.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Proficiency in coding language, primarily Python to work with a team of software developers.

• Proficiency in SQL to write complex queries.

• Technical understanding of the following:

  • GitHub

  • JSON

  • REST APIs

  • Jenkins

• Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools – Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.

• The ability to understand customer needs and to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions.

• A problem-solving mindset.

• Strong experience in system analysis & proficient across the data lifecycle to support activities of:

  • Application/Software testing

  • Containerizing applications

  • HTTP APIs (using and writing)

  • Git Ops

• Proven experience of working in cyber security with a good understanding of the processes, practices and tools used in a large IT environment.

• Working experience of at least one domain in Cyber Security

• Knowledge of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework

• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework modelling, detecting, preventing, and fighting cybersecurity threats based on cybercriminals’ known adversarial behaviours.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• A cyber-security related qualification such as CISM, CISSP, or similar.

About working for us:

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.