Security Engineering Lead

Security Engineering Lead Location: Bristol (3 days per week on-site)Salary: £100,000 + excellent benefits An established and highly regarded financial services organisation is seeking a Security Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in strengthening security controls, risk management, and remediation across a major technology transformation programme. This large-scale initiative is expected to run for 3-5 years, offering the successful candidate significant technical exposure, long-term impact, and strong opportunities for career progression within a growing security function. This is a hands-on, player-manager role, ideal for someone who enjoys remaining technically involved while also leading, mentoring, and shaping a high-performing security engineering team. You''ll work closely with one of the organisation''s flagship transformation programmes, partnering with engineering, platform, and security stakeholders to define and deliver a forward-looking security engineering strategy and roadmap. The Role As Security Engineering Lead, you will combine technical leadership with delivery, ensuring security is Embedded across platforms, infrastructure, and the software development life cycle. Team Leadership andamp; Collaboration Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture Take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to embedding security controls across engineering and delivery teams Build strong relationships with ..... full job details .....