Chief Security & AI Risk Leader

MrQ; St Albans; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday leave

Parental leave

Health insurance

Wellness incentives

Growth allowance

Flexible working

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

MrQ is building a dedicated security function with a clear strategy and budget. You will lead Security and IT Operations, shaping how AI is used securely across the platform and guiding governance, risk and compliance at board level.

You will hire and develop the security engineering team, starting with a Principal Security Engineer, and own the security roadmap on an AWS-native estate.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years in security with leadership exposure at a function or team level.
• Experience owning GRC: policies, control frameworks, risk registers, audits (ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials or equivalent).
• Able to report to the CTO and executive team with business-focused risk discussions.
• Experience securing AI/LLM systems and cloud-native architectures (AWS).
• Proven track record building or maturing a security function and leading a team.
• Strong budget management and vendor relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the security engineering and IT operations teams.
• Own governance, risk and compliance across the organisation.
• Define and secure the use of AI across platforms and tools.
• Manage security tooling (EDR/XDR, SIEM, identity, DLP) and ongoing deployments.
• Lead incident response planning, regulatory notifications and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with Compliance on UKGC regulatory matters and write security documentation.

Skills

Security leadership

Security strategy

Risk management

GRC

Cloud security AWS

EDR/XDR

SIEM

IAM

Incident response

Vendor management

Board-level communication

AI security

Team building

Budget ownership

Tools

EDR/XDR

SIEM

AWS

GRC platform

IAM

Job description

MrQ is building a dedicated security function with a clear strategy and budget. You will lead Security and IT Operations, shaping how AI is used securely across the platform and guiding governance, risk and compliance at board level.

You will hire and develop the security engineering team, starting with a Principal Security Engineer, and own the security roadmap on an AWS-native estate.