Security Lead (City of London)

Information Security Lead – FinTech, AWS, GRC – 1-2 days a week in office – £75,000 – £85,000

An industry leading FinTech who is revolutionizing how the world moves money, is looking for an Information Security Lead to play a pivotol role in embedding robust security controls, policies, and processes across their rapidly growing organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Information Security Lead to enhance their cybersecurity posture, implement cutting-edge strategies, analyse potential breaches, and ensure compliance within a dynamic fintech environment. You'll be instrumental in guiding their engineering teams on application security and championing security by design across our entire technology stack. You will report directly into the Head of Security, in a two person team, so you will have lots of ability to influece what they are doing and have exposure to all areas within security.

The Information Security Lead's respoinsibilities:

• Contributing to building world-class security practices and controls within a high-growth financial technology business shaping the future of payments.
• Conducting vulnerability assessments, leading external penetration testing, and performing risk analysis to proactively identify weaknesses in our applications, systems, and networks.
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive security policies, processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Championing a 'security by design' ethos and leading threat modelling activities across our innovative product suite.
• Driving the incident response planning and execution process in close collaboration with key stakeholders across the business.
• Partnering effectively with Engineering, IT, and business teams to implement and continuously enhance our security measures.
• Ensuring strict compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks, including GDPR, ISO 27001, CCPA, and other pertinent standards.

The ideal Information Security Lead will have experience with the following:

• Proven experience in the Information and Cyber Security space, with a strong focus on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), ideally gained within a high-growth technology business.
• A broad understanding of cloud and application security, as well as infrastructure and network security, particularly within AWS environments.
• Hands-on experience with ISO 27001 or SOC 2 implementations and ongoing maintenance.
• Knowledge of payment security standards such as PCI DSS.
• Start-up or FinTech experience.

This is an exceptional opportunity to be a key security leader within a well-funded and rapidly expanding fintech company with a clear vision to transform global payments. If you are a proactive and knowledgeable security professional ready to make a significant impact, please apply!

Information Security Lead – FinTech, AWS, ISO27001 – 1-2 days a week in office – £75,000 – £85,000