Senior Technical Application Specialist (MFA)
Location: Leeds or Manchester. Hours: Full‑time (35 hours per week) with out‑of‑hours support on a rota basis (1 in 3 weeks). Work pattern is hybrid, requiring at least two days per week (or 40%) at the office.
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid working and job share are available. Hybrid work pattern involves at least two days per week (or 40%) at Leeds or Manchester office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments and flexible working expectations.
About this opportunity
Senior role in the Chief Security Office (CSO) Identity & Access Management function. Responsible for engineering, configuration, onboarding, and operational support of Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions across Lloyds Banking Group. Shape authentication controls, design, implementation and operation across a complex, regulated estate, influencing enterprise‑scale security outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as a technical authority and subject‑matter expert for MFA and enterprise authentication controls
- Lead the design, delivery and assurance of complex MFA integrations across cloud, SaaS, on‑premise and legacy platforms
- Define and own enterprise MFA patterns, standards, and guardrails, ensuring secure and consistent adoption
- Review and challenge authentication designs to prevent insecure or non‑compliant implementations
- Provide senior technical leadership during platform migrations, strategic change and decommissioning of legacy authentication solutions
- Act as an escalation point for high‑impact or complex MFA incidents, ensuring swift resolution and reduced risk
- Drive operational resilience, availability and recoverability of MFA services
- Support audit, risk and regulatory activity with credible technical insight and evidence
- Partner with architects, product owners, engineers and security leadership to influence outcomes without formal authority
- Mentor engineers and specialists, raising capability and maturity across the IAM and security community
- Contribute to MFA strategy, roadmap development and continuous improvement initiatives
What we’re looking for
- Significant experience as a senior technical specialist in Identity & Access Management or authentication
- Deep, hands‑on expertise delivering enterprise‑scale MFA solutions
- Strong understanding of authentication and identity protocols (e.g. SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, Radius)
- Proven experience integrating authentication controls across large, complex and regulated environments
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic capability across identity, application and infrastructure layers
- Ability to operate credibly across strategy, design, delivery and operational support
- Exposure to risk‑based or conditional access models (preferred)
- Understanding of non‑human identities, APIs or workload authentication patterns (preferred)
- Experience contributing to enterprise security standards or control frameworks (preferred)
Benefits
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- Annual performance‑related bonus
- Share schemes, including free shares
- Benefits adaptable to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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