Cyber Security Deliver Assurance Lead

The Cyber Security Delivery Assurance Lead is responsible for ensuring that digital products and platforms are designed, delivered, and operated in line with cyber security, data protection, and regulatory requirements. The role acts as a bridge between Cyber Security, Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams, providing assurance that security risks are identified early, documented transparently, and remediated pragmatically without blocking delivery unnecessarily. This role does not own product delivery. It owns clarity, consistency, and confidence in how cyber risks are understood and managed across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Cyber Risk Discovery and Assessment
  • Lead structured cyber risk discovery activities across digital products, including data flows, endpoints, pipelines, and integrations.
  • Identify gaps in security controls, data handling practices, and architectural documentation.
  • Assess risks related to PII, sensitive operational data, endpoint processing, and third-party dependencies.
  • Ensure risks are articulated clearly, factually, and proportionately, avoiding speculation or assumptions.
• Delivery Assurance and Governance
  • Work with product and engineering teams to ensure cyber requirements are embedded early in design and delivery.
  • Validate that agreed security controls are implemented as intended.
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise cyber standards, aviation regulations, and relevant compliance frameworks.
  • Support Architecture Review Boards, HLD and ADR processes from a cyber assurance perspective.
• Risk Documentation and Decision Support
  • Own the creation and maintenance of cyber risk assessments, residual risk statements, and assurance artefacts.
  • Ensure documentation is accurate, evidence based, and reflects real product behavior rather than theoretical models.
  • Support senior stakeholders with clear options, tradeoffs, and risk acceptance recommendations.
  • Facilitate informed decision making rather than enforcing blanket rules.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as a trusted cyber partner to Product Owners, Tech Leads, Architects, and Delivery Managers.
  • Collaborate closely with central Cyber teams, Legal, Data Protection, and Compliance.
  • Communicate risks in plain language suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Maintain constructive relationships even when addressing sensitive or high-risk topics.
• Continuous Improvement
  • Identify recurring risk patterns across products and recommend systemic improvements.
  • Help evolve cyber assurance processes to be lighter weight, more consistent, and delivery friendly.
  • Contribute to better tooling, templates, and guidance for product teams.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Strong experience in cyber security, risk management, or security assurance within large scale digital environments.
• Solid understanding of modern software architectures, including cloud, APIs, data pipelines, and ML workflows.
• Experience working with PII, data protection, and regulated data environments.
• Ability to read and challenge architectural designs and data flows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority.

Desirable

• Experience in aviation, critical infrastructure, or highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with NIS, GDPR, and enterprise cyber governance models.
• Experience working alongside agile delivery teams.
• Background in security architecture, engineering, or platform governance.

Ways of Working

• Evidence first, assumptions last.
• Early engagement over late escalation.
• Proportionate controls over theoretical perfection.
• Collaboration over compliance theatre.