Security Engineering Lead
hace 2 días
Bristol
Security Engineering Lead Location: Bristol (3 days per week on-site) Salary: £100,000 + excellent benefits An established and highly regarded financial services organisation is seeking a Security Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in strengthening security controls, risk management, and remediation across a major technology transformation programme. This large-scale initiative is expected to run for 3-5 years, offering the successful candidate significant technical exposure, long-term impact, and strong opportunities for career progression within a growing security function. This is a hands-on, player-manager role, ideal for someone who enjoys remaining technically involved while also leading, mentoring, and shaping a high-performing security engineering team. You'll work closely with one of the organisation's flagship transformation programmes, partnering with engineering, platform, and security stakeholders to define and deliver a forward-looking security engineering strategy and roadmap. The Role As Security Engineering Lead, you will combine technical leadership with delivery, ensuring security is Embedded across platforms, infrastructure, and the software development life cycle. Team Leadership & Collaboration • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture, • Take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to embedding security controls across engineering and delivery teams, • Build strong relationships with engineering, platform, architecture, and product teams to deliver practical, scalable security solutions, • Act as a technical authority across security engineering, covering areas such as application, cloud, infrastructure, and platform security, • Drive the integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments, • Own and evolve security tooling, including vulnerability management, detection, and DevSecOps capabilities (eg SAST, DAST, SCA, container and cloud security tooling), • Define and implement secure engineering standards, including secure coding, infrastructure-as-code security, and threat modelling practices, • Partner with Vulnerability Management and broader security teams to ensure effective identification, prioritisation, and remediation of risks in line with agreed SLAs We're looking for an experienced security engineering professional with a strong technical foundation and proven leadership capability. You'll bring: • Experience in a Security Engineering Lead, Senior Security Engineer, or similar role within a complex environment, • Broad understanding of security engineering domains, including application security, cloud security, and infrastructure security, • Proven experience leading, coaching, or mentoring engineering or security teams, • Hands-on experience implementing and operating security tooling across DevSecOps environments, • Experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines (eg using AWS, Azure, or GitHub-based workflows), • Strong knowledge of secure development practices, threat modelling, and vulnerability management, • Be part of a long-term, high-profile transformation programme, • Gain broad technical exposure across modern platforms, tooling, and engineering practices, • Clear opportunities for progression within a growing and evolving security function We actively encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups and are committed to supporting accessibility needs. For more information, please apply directly or contact Abigail Moss.