Cryptography Lab Engineering Lead

Location: Leeds, Edinburgh, or Bristol; hybrid working requires at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site.

Salary: £92,701–£109,060 per year

Company

hirify.global is a major UK banking group shaping the future of finance.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering capability for Key Management services within the Cryptography Lab.
• Own the services’ end-to-end operational health, reliability, continuous improvement, and delivery outcomes.
• Lead the evolution of enterprise key management services using crypto-agility principles and modern DevOps practices.
• Ensure services are designed, built, and operated according to security policy, regulatory expectations, audit requirements, and embedded controls.
• Work with Product Owners, Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders on prioritisation, trade-offs, resilience, and delivery predictability.
• Coach and develop engineers while improving design quality, operability, maintainability, and operational maturity.

Requirements

• Senior engineering leadership experience with accountability for delivery and operational outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Key Management concepts, cryptographic controls, and Key Management operating models.
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management.
• Solid grounding in modern engineering practices and their pragmatic application in high-risk, regulated environments.
• Ability to work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders and contribute to prioritisation and trade-off decisions.
• Experience ensuring services meet security, regulatory, and audit requirements through embedded controls.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence engineering, risk, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering scalable, resilient, and highly available platforms across their full lifecycle.
• Background in Financial Services, Financial Markets, or similarly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of cryptographic ceremonies, HSM lifecycle management, or related operational practices.
• Experience driving engineering maturity, reliability, and operational excellence at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with workplace adjustments available for colleagues with disabilities.
• Up to 15% pension contribution and an annual bonus subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares, and adaptable lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and generous parental leave policies.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, learning, development, and workplace accessibility.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global careers portal for Job ID 159018.
• Workplace adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process; applicants can request support where needed.