I'm working with a high-growth technology business that is looking to hire a Lead Security Engineer as they continue to build and mature their security capability.
This is a genuinely senior technical and strategic leadership position, with plenty of ownership and autonomy.
You'll sit close to the technology leadership team, helping shape the organisation's security strategy and architecture, while still being expected to get hands-on when it matters.
It's a role for someone who can move comfortably between setting direction, influencing senior stakeholders and getting into the detail with engineering teams.
What you'll be working on Define and evolve the organisation's security strategy and architecture
Provide technical leadership across cloud, application, infrastructure and data security
Work closely with Engineering and DevOps to embed security throughout the development lifecycle
Improve security posture, monitoring, detection and response capabilities
Build and mature incident response processes and playbooks
Establish standards around identity, access, secrets, encryption and network security
Conduct threat modelling, risk assessments and security architecture reviews
Assess security risks across new products, platforms and third-party integrations
Support security governance, audit and compliance activity
Translate technical security risks into clear recommendations for senior leadership
Stay close enough to the technology to challenge designs, review implementations and get hands-on where required
Emerging Technology & Agentic Workflows The organisation is increasingly exploring AI, automation and agentic workflows, creating some interesting new security considerations.
You won't necessarily need to be an AI security specialist, but you'll be expected to understand the emerging risks and help establish sensible security principles as these technologies are adopted.
This could include areas such as:
Security considerations around agentic workflows
AI-enabled tooling and integrations
Data access and permissions
Third-party technology risk
New attack surfaces created by increasingly automated systems
What they're looking for You'll ideally be operating at Senior Security Engineer / Security Architect / Lead Security Engineer level, with experience combining technical depth with strategic thinking.
I'm particularly interested in people who can demonstrate:
Strong security engineering and architecture experience
Experience setting security strategy, standards and technical direction
Hands-on experience building and operating security controls
Cloud security experience
Security monitoring and detection engineering
DevSecOps and secure development practices
Threat modelling and risk assessment
Identity and access management
Security governance / ISO 27001
Excellent communication with both technical and senior stakeholders
You'll have the opportunity to: Take genuine ownership of the security function
Shape security strategy and technical direction
Work directly with senior technology leadership
Influence engineering and architecture decisions
Build rather than simply inherit security capability
Help the organisation navigate emerging technology and new security challenges
Have significant autonomy as the organisation continues to grow
If you're actively or passively on the market and searching for both high ownership, technical leadership and real autonomy.
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Lead Security Engineer in London employer: Formula.
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