Cyber Security Delivery Lead

Location London
Discipline: Information & Cyber Security
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £up to 130k

A leading financial services company located in London is seeking a Cyber Security Delivery Lead to join their team on a permanent basis. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who has a strong background in cyber security and has experience in managing a team.

About the Role

The Cyber Security Delivery Lead will have a broad understanding of cybersecurity, project management, and DevSecOps principles. This role will bridge and facilitate the needs of the wider organisation to implement security strategies and improve its posture and operations in an agile manner.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage complex stakeholder relationships and deliver results within the identified time and budget scope.

  • Liaise across the group and deliver Cybersecurity/DevSecOps frameworks and tools.

  • Guide and coach the organisation in best practices and Agile principles.

  • Oversee the cloud-native development security compliance/governance, supporting security teams with deliverables, prioritisation, definition, governance, and documentation.

  • Use security data, monitoring tools, and threat intelligence to inform insights and build the big picture.

  • Lead the delivery of security initiatives, applying expertise and best practice.

  • Support decision-making on security initiatives and solutions, including the delivery approach; lead the definition of security implementations, including threat modelling.

  • Lead delivery for cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams comprising internal and external stakeholders.

  • Help our teams lead their transformation and implementation of cybersecurity initiatives.

  • Assist with various Cyber technical initiatives, including NIST and ISO framework rollout and certification.

Skills and Experience:

  • Degree in computer science, business, or another relevant field

  • Understanding of threat intelligence and its use in an operational environment

  • Familiarity with cyber indices and industry best practices

  • Experience with NIST, ISO, PCI, GDPR and SOC frameworks and certification

  • Knowledge of SCADA, IoT and the energy sector is greatly advantageous

  • Experience with incident response and training delivery

  • Certified in SCRUM / Agile and some baseline Security and Cloud certification (Azure and AWS preferred)