End Date
Wednesday 06 August 2025
Salary Range
£65,385 - £72,650
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Technology Risk Consultant
SALARY: £65,000-75,000 pa
LOCATIONS: Bristol, Birmingham, Chester, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds or Manchester
London-based candidates might be considered, in exceptional circumstances.
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 our time, at one of our office sites listed above.

HOW CAN YOU HELP US MAKE THIS HAPPEN?

We’re looking for capable, articulate, and motivated individuals with:

• Deep operational expertise aligned to IT systems risk across a financial services group.
• Detailed knowledge of key technology risks facing financial services, with proven ability to assess and manage risk, set policy, design controls, provide assurance, and balance risk and reward.
• Practical expertise in one or more of the following:
• Designing, developing, and securing mobile applications across platforms, with a strong grasp of mobile-specific failure modes and app store compliance.
• Understanding the design and resilience of distributed network infrastructures, including traffic routing, fault tolerance, redundancy, and failover strategies.
• Applied knowledge across technology asset lifecycle management, configuration and build management, service management (capacity, change, problem, incident), architecture and design (including cloud services), engineering and application development (including DevOps), resilience, networking, shared responsibility models, storage, databases, operating systems, virtualisation, containerisation, and mobile.
• Curiosity and understanding of emerging technologies shaping the risk landscape (AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum).
• Deep subject matter expertise in operational risk frameworks and technologies used across financial and non-financial services.
• Strong understanding of laws, regulations, industry standards, and technical practices. Experience developing and owning group-level policy, setting risk appetite, and monitoring group exposure.
• Ability to set control objectives and performance indicators.
• Timely decision-making that balances trade-offs and aligns with business strategy.
• Experience assimilating complex data to solve problems and make relevant recommendations.
• Ability to interpret new regulation, emerging risks, and tech innovations with foresight.
• Experience as a Risk Specialist business partner, collaborating with Risk Owners, Control Owners, and Control Offices.
• Understanding of the roles across all lines of defence and ability to act as the primary Operational Risk expert.
• Experience building effective, data-led Operational Risk control objectives, including with external regulators.
• Future-focused mindset with a clear line of sight to Group Strategy.
• Ability to inspire and coach others, fostering inclusive collaboration and building teams aligned to our Group Strategy and Purpose.

Please refer the Job description for details