Security Specialist Manager

Job Title: Security Specialist

Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Function: CISO
Salary: £Competitive + excellent benefits
Location: London or Edinburgh - Hybrid working
Closing Date: 1 May 2026

How you’ll make a difference 
The Security Specialist will design and deliver security solutions to address identified threats and vulnerabilities and ensure cyber security controls are implemented across all programmes.  You’ll work within teams of security and technical specialists to ensure quality delivery of world class security solutions and coach cyber security staff from a technical SME perspective.

You’ll also define security deliverables to project and change initiatives during early engagement, direct to approved architectural patterns, support and guide through implementation and validate the solution as part of certification prior to go-live.

What you’ll bring

• Preferably educated to a degree level or above in an Information Security related discipline or equivalent work experience.  May also have certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CSSLP or equivalent.
• Proven and repeatable experience consulting in change lifecycles, ensuring the appropriate security requirements are specified and understood such that they are realised in the resulting solution.
• Experience architecting solutions together with hands on experience of AWS / Azure.
• Experience in the financial services sector.
• Ability to work in a constantly changing and fast past environment, switching between different change activities.
• Experience in a number of core security domains: IAM & PAM / Infrastructure / Cloud / Cryptography / Application / Data / SOC.

What we offer in return

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life balance.
• An attractive reward and benefits package through myTSB, giving you more of what matters to you.
• A diverse, energising, and collaborative working environment.
• A career that’s enriching and full of opportunities.

Selection process
There will likely be a 30-minute informal, exploratory chat with the Hiring Manager followed by a structured interview via Teams with the Hiring Manager plus another member of the team. Here are some of the questions you’ll be asked at interview:

• Describe your perfect day at work.
• Describe a time when you have created an environment of honesty, inclusion and respect for others.
• When have you successfully gained the commitment of different stakeholders who held opposing views to your own?
• Tell me about a time when you took a risk on an innovative idea or change to improve existing ways of doing things?

So, if this sounds up your street, come join our team, we make things happen!