Senior Information Security Engineer - £75,000 per annum - Fully Remote - FinTech

VirtueTech Recruitment Group
Ashton-under-Lyne
1 week ago
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Are you the right applicant for this opportunity Find out by reading through the role overview below.

My client are building a lean, automation-focused team and looking for a Compliance and Information Security Engineer to lead data protection, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity. This strategic, hands-on role involves acting as DPO and embedding scalable, efficient controls across the business. Ideal for someone collaborative and pragmatic, who can balance risk and agility in a fast-paced startup environment.


The role is looking for someone asap and will be offering a fully remote opportunity with the occasional team meet-ups in London.


Key Skills:

  • Lead and maintain compliance frameworks (UK GDPR, DPA 2018, ISO27001, FCA AISP), ensuring up-to-date policies, procedures, and controls across data protection, information security, and regulatory risk.
  • Act as Data Protection Officer (DPO), managing SARs, breaches, ROPAs, and DPIAs, while delivering scalable training and awareness across the company.
  • Design and implement secure, low-overhead technical and organisational controls, overseeing incident response, vendor security, and external certifications.
  • Drive compliance automation initiatives to minimise manual processes and support scalable growth, conducting internal audits and monitoring to maintain high standards.
  • Collaborate across teams to embed proportionate, automation-friendly compliance and security practices, and communicate risks clearly to leadership.
  • Proven experience in compliance and infosec, with strong regulatory knowledge (UK GDPR, ISO27001), excellent communication skills, and ideally relevant certifications (e.g. CIPP/E, CISSP).


If you are interested in the open role please come back on this with an updated CV as soon as possible.


Senior Information Security Engineer - £75,000 per annum - Fully Remote - FinTech


Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.

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