Director

Description :

Security Architecture Leadership :

- Lead the enterprise security architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business priorities and industry best practice.

- Own the design and review of secure solutions, ensuring robust and scalable configurations.

- Build strong, collaborative relationships with customer stakeholders from engineering teams to C-level leaders understanding their security needs and articulating our capabilities.

- Champion a security-by-design and security-by-default culture across the organisation.

Engineering Leadership :

- Lead and develop a skilled team of security engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing security platforms and controls.

- Drive continuous improvement, automation, and the adoption of repeatable patterns that strengthen engineering consistency.

Security Technology Roadmap :

- Own and evolve the security technology roadmap to reduce risk, enable innovation, and drive adoption of emerging technologies.

- Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to align security initiatives with strategic objectives.

- Build and nurture a high-performing cybersecurity team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, accountability and collaboration.

Qualifications :

- Demonstrated senior leadership experience in security architecture and engineering within large, complex global environments telecoms experience is highly desirable.

- Deep expertise in security principles, protocols and technologies, including modern engineering practices, automation and deployment pipelines.

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field.

- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks such as TSA, NIS2 and DORA.

- Proven ability to assess complex security challenges and make sound, informed decisions.

- Excellent leadership, communication and influencing skills.

Personal attributes :

- A dynamic security leader who thrives on challenge and impact, with a passion for solving complex problems and a strong growth mindset.

- Exceptional communicator who can adapt style for diverse audiences and build trust quickly.

- Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative nature, and the ability to build high-performing, cross-cultural teams.

- Strategic thinker with natural curiosity and the ability to join the dots across architecture, engineering, and business priorities