Data Security Engineering Lead

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Watford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Lead Data Security Engineer in Watford to define a security North Star for our data platforms and protect multi-market data assets. This pivotal IC leadership role translates complex risks into scalable defenses that enable growth without compromise.

You'll partner with data teams and engineering to embed security at scale, driving encryption, discovery, and governance while enabling rapid innovation across our cloud-native platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building or running data security controls (DSPM/DLP) and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Embed security checks into CI/CD pipelines with developers and data engineers.
• Build secure data solutions with data teams through collaborative engineering.
• Design automated workflows to detect and fix data security risks at scale.
• Deploy continuous monitoring, guardrails, and auto-remediation across cloud environments.
• Engineer data encryption, masking, discovery, classification, and access governance.
• Secure LLM/AI pipelines by guarding against prompt injection and tracking data lineage.

Skills

DSPM

DLP

Data classification

Encryption

Access governance

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Lead Data Security Engineer in Watford to define a security North Star for our data platforms and protect multi-market data assets. This pivotal IC leadership role translates complex risks into scalable defenses that enable growth without compromise.

You'll partner with data teams and engineering to embed security at scale, driving encryption, discovery, and governance while enabling rapid innovation across our cloud-native platform.