Cyber Delivery Assurance Lead - (Leading UK Airline - 3 month initial contract/rolling - 3 days per week in Heathrow)

As a Cyber Delivery Assurance Lead, where you''ll play a pivotal role reporting to a Cyber Delivery Assurance Principal. Collaborating closely with Digital Delivery leadership and teams, the Cyber Team, and the Cyber Security Office, you''ll oversee multiple domains or tribes, ensuring effective assurance processes and embedding security within our operations.

What you''ll do:

• Provide assurance to the Cyber Delivery Assurance Principal that product delivery and maintenance meet''s the risk appetite and that controls are operating effectively.
• Successfully embedding security by design with proportionate appropriate cyber controls aligned to risk.
• Senior stakeholder management (negotiation and influencing) across multinational organisations, including third party suppliers and delivery partners.
• Take full responsibility for the secure delivery of programmes, by assisting the product team by interpreting and embedding Cyber Security policies, standards, guidelines and procedures to an agreed framework against all product team deliverables.
• May engage with the Cyber Security Office (CSO) project assurance and architecture functions, ensuring consistency and best cyber practice is adhered to.
• Provide authoritative advice and guidance on the application and operation of all types of security controls including legislative or regulatory requirements.
• Advise users on risk management and reduction and promote awareness in conjunction with cyber awareness programmes

What you''ll bring:

• Ability to undertake threat and risk assessments across varied technology stacks, identifying suitable mitigating controls.
• Demonstrates clear leadership and an ability to communicate, influence and persuade across the organisation at senior levels, leading by example and aligning stakeholder groups around a common vision.
• Initiates and manages change to help secure the future direction.
• Prioritisation across multiple products, based on overall product team structure and delivery strategy.
• Strong ability to work under pressure in a changing environment. Key enablers Enabling to embed security by design. Supporting active risk management. Key performance indicators

Your experience:

• Broad technical knowledge of cyber security controls demonstrated by attainment of appropriate qualifications e.g. CISSP, ISO27001 Lead Implementor or relevant SANS GIAC or equivalent. Any AI certification would be a bonus.
• Knowledge of the NIST framework, AI Security Governance, PCI DSS, GDPR and NIS as well as NCSC cyber guidance.
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment would be highly advantageous.
• Specific cyber knowledge and demonstrable experience in at least one of the following areas: Cloud security, network security, digital security (multi-platform), infrastructure security, security by design, security architecture and AI security
• Experience working in a regulated environment with specific cyber requirements that require interpretation and application.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.