Information Security SME

3 days ago


London Area, United Kingdom Rothstein Recruitment Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Information Security SME - Payments - CISSP - Banking

Excellent opportunity opens for an
Information Security SME
to join a
leading Bank
as an SME on
Banking Payments projects
. This role offers the opportunity to be embedded in a dynamic technology delivery team, driving security integration across a
major transformation programme
. You'll have the autonomy to solve real-world security challenges hands-on, collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders. The position provides a chance to shape the security posture of critical systems while applying broad expertise across architecture, threat modelling, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Problem Solving
  • You will develop a deep knowledge of your workstreams technology stack and business outcomes allowing you to not only identify security risks but identify and propose practical solutions to the team. This role is all about helping teams
    deliver securely
    not just calling out risks.
  • Risk and Control Assessments
    – You will lead risk & control assessments using the Banks defined processes, covering supplier due diligence, privacy impact assessments and project security.
  • Risk Management
    – You will support your workstream identify and articulate risks, steering them towards appropriate treatment plans, documenting mitigating controls and ensuring these are actions within agreed timeframes. You will operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to your line manager.
  • Advisory
    – You will provide specialist advice and interpretation of Information Security best practice and UK regulatory requirements to a range of different stakeholders as new products, processes and systems are developed. You will need to be aware of your own knowledge gaps and when & where to seek specialist input to solve a particular problem or query
  • Subject Matter Expertise
    – You will develop a deep knowledge of the Banks secure change processes and procedures, shepherding your workstream through various assessments and approval gates

About You:

The successful applicant will have a solid understanding of Information Security best practice and regulatory requirements, and ideally will have good practical experience in privacy as well. They will also ideally:

  • Hold or have the capability to attain appropriate external qualifications, such as
    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
  • Payments
    Project experience.
  • Information Security
  • Solid, practical and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non technical aspects)
  • Privacy
    – You don't need to be a privacy expert but you will require a good understanding of core privacy concepts and how these apply to technology change initiatives
  • Technology Change
    – Demonstrable experience of supporting technology change initiatives to deliver solutions securely
  • Financial Services -
    Experience working in FS or other highly regulate industry
  • Intra-Group –
    Experience working in a intra-group outsourcing arrangement
  • Technology Transformation -
    Experience working on large-scale technology transformation programmes

Interested? Please Apply

CISSP Information Security InfoSec SME Specialist Payment Payments Programme Project Modernisation Transformation Payment Security Payment Information Security Payments SME



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