Lead Cyber Security Manager

JOB TITLE: Lead Cyber Security Manager

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 per annum

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY…

This is your chance to bring your skills to the forefront and make a real difference in shaping the future of payments, making them easier, faster and safer for our customers.

It’s vital that we operate proactive Cyber Security service across the Payment Services Platform application landscape – identifying and pursuing opportunities for continuous improvement across our diverse platform.

The Lead Cyber Security Manager is an interlock role in a niche team, working across teams to ensure the right interventions are being put in place, at the right pace and at the right time.  This role is to lead a team of cyber security specialists based in Edinburgh. We’re looking for someone who has a broad understanding of payments, cyber security and engineering, with the personal attributes and business skills to harness the expertise of these three areas.

ABOUT US…

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED…

• Leadership experience suitable for a small team of experts with a diverse security skillset.

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of cyber security principles across the 8 CISSP domains.

• Extensive experience of developing and executing cyber security strategy.

• Extensive cyber security knowledge in a large and complex enterprise organisation.

• Experience of assessing Cloud security configuration against best practice.

• Experience of articulating cyber risks and leading the remediation or mitigation of cyber risks.

• Experience of delivering complex security risk and compliance assessments, communicating outcomes and action recommendations to senior stakeholders.

• Experience of shaping cost/risk/benefit cases for senior audiences to support the improvement of systems security and maintain security compliance with internal security standards and external laws, regulations and industry schemes.

• Comprehensive knowledge of security testing and vulnerability management.

• Experience of leading and promoting a strong security culture and sharing cyber security knowledge and awareness.

• Proven success in delivering complex accountabilities with minimal supervision.

• In depth knowledge of emerging threats e.g., Quantum, AI and Digital Ledger

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAD…

• Financial Services Regulation and Payments Scheme compliance experience.

• Experience of DevSecOps and securing containers, microservices, serverless computing.

• One or more of the following qualifications (or equivalent): CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CISA, CISMP.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US…

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

WE ALSO OFFER A WIDE-RANGING BENEFITS PACKAGE, WHICH INCLUDES...

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!