About the role

  • Lead security functions across ClearBank’s regulated cloud banking platform. Ensure safety, resilience, and compliance while collaborating with engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mature all aspects of security across a regulated cloud banking environment.
  • Own secure SDLC strategy and uplift, ensuring engineering teams use secure-by-default tooling and controls.
  • Drive Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) across Azure and any supporting AWS estates.
  • Lead improvement of Microsoft Defender coverage (aiming to increase from 66% toward 100%).
  • Enhance AI governance, ensuring safe and compliant usage of AI tooling across the bank.
  • Oversee threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and continuous tooling evolution.
  • Embed breach readiness through game days, tabletop exercises, and improved response processes.
  • Strengthen controls against internal/external threats, including least-privilege access and endpoint lockdown.
  • Monitor dark-web exposure, data leakage risk, and ensure strong encryption and data-handling practices.
  • Ensure regulatory and audit expectations (ISO27001, internal/external audits, regulator engagement) are consistently met or exceeded.
  • Partner closely with engineering and technology leadership to deliver resilient, secure systems.
  • Lead, develop, and support high-performing security teams.
  • Security reporting to CTO, relevant governance forums including Board and Industry Regulators

Requirements

  • Experience leading security in a highly regulated cloud environment (Bank or EMI).
  • Expert knowledge of ISO27001, regulatory expectations, and audit management.
  • Leadership experience running multi-disciplinary security functions.
  • Deep experience handling security incidents and post-incident learning.
  • Ability to design and execute strong breach-readiness processes.
  • Expertise in threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and modern security tooling.
  • Hands-on understanding of insider-threat controls, endpoint security, and least-privilege models.
  • Cloud-native security expertise.

Benefits

  • 42% of our senior management roles are held by women
  • Our enhanced family leave policies
  • Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
  • Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group

Job title

VP Security

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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