Chief Information Security & Privacy Leader

MOO; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Matched pension

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Season ticket loan

Cycle to work

Hybrid/Remote work options

Job summary

MOO is seeking a hands-on Head of Security to build and scale security, privacy, and resilience across the business. You’ll partner with Technology, Product, Legal, and Leadership to protect customer trust while enabling growth and innovation.

You’ll define security strategy, governance, and incident response, driving compliance programmes and cloud security posture across our e-commerce and fintech-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in information security, including leadership-level responsibility.
• Proven experience building and scaling security and privacy programmes within growing organisations.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of GDPR, PCI-DSS, incident response, and resilience planning.
• Experience working within cloud-first environments, ideally AWS.
• Strong understanding of security within e-commerce, fintech, or customer-data-led businesses.
• Comfortable operating as both a strategic leader and hands-on practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a business-aligned information security strategy, prioritising compliance, privacy, AppSec, and resilience.
• Chair the Security Governance Forum, define risk appetite and KRIs, and manage quarterly board-level reporting.
• Drive near-term adoption of UK Cyber Essentials and CIS AWS Foundations, establishing centralized monitoring and alerting.
• Own the GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance programmes, embedding Privacy by Design and data minimization into delivery processes.
• Own the incident response plan, acting as incident commander during crises and managing communications with executives, customers, and regulators.
• Define and test disaster recovery strategies to meet strict RTO/RPO targets (≤12h), including AWS regional outages and DB loss.
• Establish pre-procurement security gates and continuous monitoring SLAs with suppliers, and manage cloud posture governance.

Skills

Security leadership

Governance

Cloud security

GDPR/PCI-DSS

Incident response

Vendor risk

Executive communication

Tools

Wiz

Security Hub

AWS

Job description

MOO is seeking a hands-on Head of Security to build and scale security, privacy, and resilience across the business. You’ll partner with Technology, Product, Legal, and Leadership to protect customer trust while enabling growth and innovation.

You’ll define security strategy, governance, and incident response, driving compliance programmes and cloud security posture across our e-commerce and fintech-enabled environment.