About the role

  • Head of IT & Security at Motorway, managing technology risk and operational IT functions. Responsible for security architecture and collaboration across all departments.

Responsibilities

  • Own Motorway’s security strategy and execution, acting as the accountable owner for cyber, fraud, and data risk
  • Clearly articulate risk, impact, and trade-offs to senior leadership, prioritising effort where it materially reduces business impact
  • Lead core IT and platform capabilities that underpin secure access, identity, endpoints, and employee productivity
  • Ensure controls are reliable, proportionate, and support secure defaults while maintaining a strong employee experience
  • Own the reliability and effectiveness of IT service delivery, including end-user support, incident handling, and request fulfilment
  • Continuously improve IT operations and tooling to reduce friction for teams as Motorway scales
  • Partner closely with Engineering to embed security into development workflows
  • Use automation and AI-assisted approaches to scale visibility, reporting, and response without scaling headcount

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading security and/or IT functions in a high-growth, technology-driven environment
  • Strong understanding of modern security challenges across cloud platforms, software and API security, identity, monitoring, and incident response
  • A pragmatic, outcome-driven mindset with a strong sense of ownership and high business judgement
  • Ability to set and communicate a clear security and IT strategy aligned to business goals, translating risk, growth plans, and constraints into a prioritised roadmap over multiple horizons
  • Exceptional communicator who can translate complex technical risk into clear, relevant decisions for executives, engineers, and non-technical teams, adapting depth and language to the audience
  • Comfortable leading through incidents and ambiguity, with the judgement to act decisively when risk is high.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Head of IT, Security

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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