Secure by Design Lead Day rate: £600 - £700 Inside IR35 via Umbrella Location: Reading (Once a week on site, Wednesday''s) Contract: 6 months initial The opportunity: Our client, a leading financial services organisation is looking for a hands-on Secure by Design Lead to take charge of its security consultancy function. This is a chance to shape how security is built into business and technology change, including the secure adoption of AI. You''ll lead a team of security consultants and architects, raising the quality and consistency of their work while keeping close to the technical detail yourself. The team is capable but works in pockets, so a big part of the role is bringing people together around shared standards and one way of working. What you''ll be doing: Leading, coaching and developing the team, with clear direction, regular peer reviews and honest, constructive challenge Aligning the team''s work to group standards and frameworks and building on recent improvements to ways of working Providing technical leadership on design reviews, threat modelling and security assurance across applications, cloud, identity, data and third-party services Acting as the senior escalation point for complex security challenges Building strong relationships with business and technology leaders and turning technical risk into clear advice that supports good decisions Building AI security assurance into the service, covering internal AI use cases, agentic AI and third-party AI ..... full job details .....