Engineering Lead (Cryptography lab))

Description

This role leads the engineering team for key management services in the cryptography lab, which sits within the Chief Security Office of a UK financial services group.

The company is a UK bank that is changing quickly, and the team works in a high-trust, high-risk, regulated setting.

Applications close on Friday 27 November 2026.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering capability for key management services in the cryptography lab, owning their end-to-end operational health, reliability and ongoing improvement.
• Lead and direct a team of engineers so that services are designed, built and run in line with security policy, regulatory expectations and audit requirements.
• Drive gains in engineering effectiveness, service resilience and predictable delivery, while keeping strong control over cryptographic operations and ceremonies such as HSM lifecycle management.
• Work with Product Owners, Risk, Compliance and Audit stakeholders.
• Coach teams to improve design quality, operability and maintainability, and build a culture of continuous learning, collaboration and excellence.
• Help strengthen the technical and operational maturity of the platform.
• Lead the evolution of enterprise key management services, building crypto-agility and modern DevOps practices in so they stay scalable, secure and adaptable.

Requirements

• Senior engineering leadership experience, with accountability for delivery and operational outcomes.
• Solid knowledge of key management concepts, cryptographic controls and key management operating models.
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management.
• Sound grounding in modern engineering practices, and the judgement to apply them pragmatically in high-risk, regulated environments.
• Ability to work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders, helping to set priorities and make trade-off decisions.
• Experience making sure services meet security, regulatory and audit requirements, with controls built in.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence engineering, risk and business teams.
• Would be great: experience delivering scalable, resilient and highly available platforms across the full lifecycle.
• Would be great: background in financial services, financial markets or a similarly regulated environment.
• Would be great: knowledge of cryptographic ceremonies, HSM lifecycle management or related operational practices.
• Would be great: experience raising engineering maturity, reliability and operational excellence at scale.

Conditions

Salary is between £92,701 and £109,060.

Full-time, 35 hours a week.

Hybrid working: you spend at least two days a week, about 40% of your time, at one of the office sites.

Flexible working options include hybrid working and job share.

Reasonable workplace adjustments are available, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working pattern.

Disabled applicants, or those with a long-term health or neurodivergent condition, who meet the minimum criteria are guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus, subject to group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Lifestyle benefits, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.