Global Head of Secure Development

We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who require a Global Head of Secure Development for one of their Public sector Clients based in London.

• IR35 - This role is inside of IR35
• Location-London (100% onsite)

Job Description:

• An inquisitive approach, always asking how to achieve goals in a smarter and more effective way
• An ability and interest to learn and experiment with new approaches to achieve business and cybersecurity outcomes, in different and often challenge contexts.
• Proven ability to forge innovative approaches to complex and complicated problems, including the use of research and/or experimentation, in-role or via academia.

Key Skills required:

• Strong Risk and Controls understanding
• Knowledge and exposure of the application of Risk and Control Management and associated frameworks, preferably from a multi-market institution
• Fluent ability in articulating technical threats, scenarios, controls and risks to both technical and business stakeholders.

Strong Technical background

• Proven experience in senior/leadership roles in security development, application security and/or security architecture
• Proven experience in DevOps/DevSecOps including Agile and Waterfall Software Development life cycles
• Proven experience working in a large scale, multi-national and technologically diverse environment
• Proven experience on integration of various security technologies (eg SAST, DAST, IAST, container security) and practises (eg Policy-as-Code) within DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Chef, Ansible, Nexus, etc)
• Expert understanding of Security concepts and principles.
• Excellent understanding of platform-specific security risks, common vulnerabilities for web and mobile applications, micro-services (REST, SOAP) architecture and their mitigations
• Good understanding of security flaws in common programming languages
• Knowledge and experience with network, host and application security practices
• Understanding of emerging technologies and its corresponding security threats would be a plus
• Proven experience with common public cloud environment (eg AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud)
• Strong technical understanding and experience of assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in diverse enterprise IT assets
• Professional IT Security qualifications and/or certification
• Knowledge of Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Experience in continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Strong stakeholder management and communications skills

• Ability to engage with and influence executive leadership
• Experience in managing, developing and retaining high-performing individuals in different geographies, often remotely
• Experience in engaging with business, technology, regional and regulator stakeholders
• Ability to prepare concise presentations, reports and updates for senior management

Effective Leadership

• Possess strong leadership skills to bring out the best in a team. This includes both direct leadership and cross-functional capabilities
• Experience within fast-moving, complex and demanding corporate environments and able to provide appropriate direction to the team whilst dealing with ambiguity and change
• Act as a role-model for more junior members of Cybersecurity and Technology

Interpersonal Skills

• Influential, credible and persuasive, active listener, embraces client Values, shows good judgement and demonstrates high level of communication skills in order to achieve effective stakeholder management

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.