Engineering Lead (Cryptography lab)

Join our Chief Security Office's Cryptography Lab as an Engineering Lead. You will be responsible for the end-to-end operational health, reliability, and ongoing improvement of Key Management services. You will lead a team of engineers, ensuring services are designed, built, and operated in line with security policy, regulatory expectations, and audit requirements. You will also drive improvements in engineering effectiveness, service resilience, and delivery predictability. This role offers a generous holiday allowance, flexible working arrangements, family leave, health insurance, colleague offers, financial products, share plans, and a pension plan.

• Lead the engineering capability for Key Management services within the Chief Security Office’s Cryptography Lab, ensuring operational health and ongoing improvement.
• Provide leadership and direction to a team of engineers, ensuring services are designed, built, and operated in line with security policy and regulatory expectations.
• Drive improvements in engineering effectiveness, service resilience, and delivery predictability, while maintaining strong control discipline across cryptographic operations.
• Solid grounding in modern engineering practices and applying them pragmatically in high‑risk, regulated environments
• Ability to work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders, contributing to prioritisation and trade‑off decisions
• Experience ensuring services meet security, regulatory and audit requirements with embedded controls
• Lead the evolution of enterprise key management services, embedding crypto‑agility principles and modern DevOps engineering practices to ensure scalable, secure, and adaptable cryptographic controls
• Strong understanding of Key Management concepts, cryptographic controls and KM operating models
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management
• Senior engineering leadership experience with accountability for delivery and operational outcomes
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, risk and business teams
• Knowledge of cryptographic ceremonies, HSM lifecycle management or related operational practices
• Background in Financial Services, Financial Markets or similarly regulated environments
• Experience driving engineering maturity, reliability and operational excellence at scale
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient and highly available platforms across the full lifecycle