Role Title
Cyber Security Delivery Assurance Lead
Role Purpose
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
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
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