Cyber Assurance Lead

Contract Duration: 6 Months Location: Remote with ad hoc travel to London/Birmingham Job Type: Contract - Outside IR35 Join our leading digital transformation consultancy as a Cyber Assurance Lead! This role provides senior leadership across a live digital and cloud portfolio, owning security assurance strategy, prioritisation, and decision-making. It is crucial for ensuring security risk is managed and documented pragmatically across the organisation in a fast-paced digital environment. Day-to-day of the role: Own and lead cross-project cyber security assurance across a complex multi-system digital portfolio. Act as the senior security decision-maker, providing clear risk-based recommendations and approvals. Prioritise assurance activity across multiple live projects and services. Challenge senior delivery, digital, and technical stakeholders constructively on risk, architecture, and control gaps. Ensure consistent assurance artefacts, risk registers, control mapping, and decisions are produced and maintained. Oversee and quality-assure the work of senior and mid-level security consultants. Support compliance and assurance activity in regulated/audited environments. Provide assurance input across cloud, SaaS, integration, and OT adjacent initiatives. Lead remediation activities arising from security reviews, ensuring actions are agreed, tracked, evidenced, and closed. Review and challenge security architecture decisions across cloud, SaaS, and integration-led services. ..... full job details .....