Cybersecurity Leader

KBC Technologies UK Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational financial services company is seeking a Cybersecurity leader to shape their Web Application Security & Protection strategy. This senior position requires a strong leader to innovate and deliver solutions in a risky digital environment. Responsibilities include overseeing best practices for cybersecurity, managing a dedicated team of experts, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in cybersecurity management and delivering innovative solutions across a diverse technology landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience working with WAF, Reverse Proxy, and API protection.
• Strong background in network security strategy.
• Proven track record of delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain global strategy for Web Application Security and Protection.
• Own investment roadmap for WASP and manage its delivery.
• Lead and manage a team of cybersecurity experts globally.

Skills

Web Application Security & Protection

Cyber risk management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Risk assessment

Job description

• We are looking for a Cybersecurity leader to join us to shape our long‑term strategy, and turbo‑charge delivery, as the accountable owner for Web Application Security & Protection (WASP) across the bank. This senior role reports directly to the Global Head of Network Security.
• Strategy: Define and maintain our global strategy for WASP, supported by engineers, platform owners, architects and Control Owners, enabling business success, meeting regulatory expectation and best practice, whilst responding to current and likely threat actor evolution.
• Delivery: Own the investment roadmap for WASP and its successful delivery across multiple partners. Ensure the transparent prioritization of a common backlog to drive risk reduction, simplification and wider strategic needs. Ensure risk‑risk trade‑offs are managed, particularly risk mitigation and operational needs.
• Innovation: Empower HSBC to successfully navigate cyber risk with innovative, responsive and frictionless technologies and services, both those delivered in‑house and from external partners. Foster and empower a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Partnership: Develop with colleagues throughout technology and the business innovative technical solutions that meet both current and future business needs, ensuring the bank's infrastructure remains scalable and resilient. Drive the shift‑left of WASP in partnership with DevOps. Partner with external technology providers and security specialists to integrate best practice and leverage or build cutting‑edge tooling.
• Services: Define, operate and mature a business service supporting adoption and tuning of protections, as well as being a trusted advisor and point of escalation for technical and business teams managing online services, ensuring security requirements are understood and effectively implemented.
  WAAP capability / product lead: experience in WAF / Reverse Proxy / API protection application / network security strategy uplifts (GCB3 equivalent).
  Oversight: Ensure WASP is overseen end‑to‑end, robustly and throughout the organisation: from platform acquisition, service deployment through to federated operation. Drive a data‑centric approach to observability and assessment, wherever possible supported by automation, measures and analytics.
• Accountability: Ensure regulatory and risk management outcomes are being maintained or robustly managed. Ownership of High‑Risk Audit, Regulator and self‑identified issues. Ownership of the capability budget, balancing run and change investment. As a senior leader, contribute to and champion change across both Cybersecurity and Technology, occasionally outside of your primary remit.
• Talent: Lead, manage, invest in, recruit and inspire a team of highly skilled and performant SMEs across the globe. A culture driven by empowerment, experimentation, learning, partnership and delivery. A place where colleagues thrive, solving meaningful problems that keep the bank and its customers safe.