Overview
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Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
Salary: Up to £80,400 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 21st September 2025
Responsibilities
* Lead and undertake risk management activities against the hardest or most novel scenarios, while applying the fundamental principles of risk management to a range of complex scenarios, and lead regulatory or legislative compliance activities
* Guide and direct specialist activities of others, actively promoting development in the applicable skills, providing leadership to other risk managers, and sharing best practice widely across government, the public sector, and industry
* Lead the analysis and derivation of complex security needs
* Lead Cyber Security related risk assessments and other expert risk management activities, including providing guidance on establishing the organisation's Cyber Security related governance arrangements
* Provide guidance to ensure ongoing confidence that fundamental organisational security needs have been met, including integrating a range of assurance approaches and techniques to give continued confidence to the risk, service or system owner
* Shape leadership decision-making through:
o Effective reporting and communication regarding the effectiveness of security processes across an organisation
o Providing recommendations to highly complex problems
o Acting as an SME for complex cyber risk management concerns, issues and problems
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and they will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. They aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
Qualifications
* A Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
* Demonstrate experience in cloud security across at least one platform of AWS or Azure and be willing to undertake formal training and certifications in this area.
Required Experience
As a Principal Cyber Risk Manager you are inquisitive and enjoy understanding the context of the full service and product suite you are supporting. You work in a matrix team with roles such as developers, User experience and service design, business analysis to bring a rounded approach to a Service. You are good at making evidenced based recommendations to both Service Owners and Senior Security Leadership roles around the level of security risk being managed within each Product. You enjoy learning about new technology. You are part of a wider Security profession and support the development of that profession as part of a leadership role in the organisation and are able to bring strategic influence to your local Services and Products.
Benefits
* Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
* 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days).
* 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the Kings birthday.
* Access to the staff discount portal.
* Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
* Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all their colleagues.
* 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
* Flexible working options where they encourage a great work-life balance.
To Apply
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