Description
The Data Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining MO's data security frameworks to safeguard sensitive information against unauthorized access, breaches and cyber threats. This role focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, establishing robust security protocols and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. The Data Security Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop security solutions that align with business objectives, enhance system resilience and promote a culture of data security across the organisation. By proactively addressing security challenges, this role plays a pivotal part in protecting MO's digital assets and fostering trust among stakeholders & customers.
You are a detail-oriented and analytical professional with a passion for safeguarding data and a deep understanding of security best practices. With a solid foundation in cybersecurity principles, you have experience designing and implementing security measures that protect sensitive information in complex environments. Your technical expertise spans areas such as encryption, access controls, vulnerability assessments and incident response.
You have excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset, enabling you to anticipate potential threats and address them effectively. Communication comes naturally to you, and you excel at explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams. Collaborative and adaptable you enjoy staying current with emerging technologies and evolving cyber threats. Integrity, resourcefulness and a commitment to continuous improvement define your approach to ensuring data security and organisational resilience.
Qualifications
Minimum Criteria
You'll need all of these.
Experience in a hands-on Cyber Security focused role, primarily in the data security domain.
A strong & demonstrable knowledge of security frameworks, standards and regulations (NIST, GDPR for example).
Familiarity with cloud security principles and experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and Snowflake.
A clear and demonstrable understanding of data science principles and practices.
Any security focused experience with the use of AI Tooling within data science is welcome.
Degree in Information Security, Computer Science or equivalent, or industry certifications such as CISSP, is advantageous but not a core requirement.
Benefits
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
We find solutions
We drive change
We care
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
1 day for volunteering
Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
Funded health screening for over 50s
Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
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