Cryptographer

🔐 Hiring: Lead Cryptography Engineer | Leeds, UK 📍 Location: Leeds, UK – Hybrid (2 days/week onsite) 💷 Rate: £400/day Inside IR35 📅 Contract: 6 months+ We are looking for an experienced Lead Cryptography Engineer to lead the engineering capability for Key Management Services within a Cryptography Lab. 🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team responsible for Key Management services
• Own end-to-end service reliability, operational health and continuous improvement
• Drive the evolution of enterprise Key Management Services and crypto-agility
• Establish modern DevOps and engineering practices across cryptographic platforms
• Lead and coach engineering teams, including performance and capability development
• Ensure services comply with security policies, regulatory requirements and audit controls
• Work closely with Product Owners, Risk, Compliance and Audit stakeholders
• Drive resilience, scalability, reliability and operational excellence
• Provide technical leadership around HSM lifecycle management and cryptographic ceremonies 🔹 Essential Skills & Experience ✅ Senior Engineering Leadership experience ✅ Strong Key Management / Cryptography knowledge ✅ Enterprise KMS operating models and cryptographic controls ✅ HSM lifecycle management experience ✅ Crypto-agility and modern DevOps practices ✅ Experience leading and developing engineering teams ✅ Strong security, regulatory and audit awareness ✅ Experience with highly available and resilient platforms ✅ Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills ⭐ Desirable
• Banking / Financial Services / Financial Markets experience
• Experience operating cryptographic platforms in regulated environments
• Engineering maturity, SRE and operational excellence at scale 📩 Interested? Please share your updated CV and contact details.