Cyber Assurance Lead

Reed; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Reed is seeking a Cyber Assurance Lead to drive security governance across a live digital and cloud portfolio. This remote role requires occasional travel to London or Birmingham and offers senior leadership responsibility for risk-based assurance decisions across multiple projects.

You will own assurance artefacts, risk registers, and control mapping, while guiding security architecture reviews and remediation activities with senior stakeholders. BPSS and active clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading security assurance and risk management across live digital environments.
• Strong background in cloud and SaaS environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with integration-heavy estates, APIs, and third-party platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging at CISO and senior leadership level.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset - able to balance pace with control.
• Ability to make and defend risk-based security decisions in complex delivery environments.
• Experience reviewing security architecture and cloud design decisions.
• Proven experience producing assurance artefacts, risk assessments, decision papers, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Produce and present portfolio-level risk positions, security decision papers, and assurance updates to senior stakeholders.
• Drive consistency of assurance approaches, control assessments, and risk management practices across multiple projects and services.

Skills

Security assurance leadership

Risk management

Cloud & SaaS focus

Stakeholder management

Security architecture review

Executive reporting

Remediation tracking

Job description

• 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.
• Produce and present portfolio-level risk positions, security decision papers, and assurance updates to senior stakeholders.
• Drive consistency of assurance approaches, control assessments, and risk management practices across multiple projects and services.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Extensive experience leading security assurance and risk management across live digital environments.
• Strong background in cloud and SaaS environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with integration-heavy estates, APIs, and third-party platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging at CISO and senior leadership level.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset - able to balance pace with control.
• Ability to make and defend risk-based security decisions in complex delivery environments.
• Experience reviewing security architecture and cloud design decisions.
• Proven experience producing assurance artefacts, risk assessments, decision papers, and executive reporting.
• Experience supporting the remediation and closure of security findings, risks, and control gaps.

Desirable:

• Exposure to GovAssure or central government assurance models.
• Experience with OT, IoT, smart-building, or property technology environments.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Planon, or similar SaaS platforms.
• Experience operating within central government assurance frameworks, including GovAssure.
• Experience providing assurance across operational technology (OT), smart-building, and PropTech environments.

Additional Information:

• BPSS and active Security Clearance required.