Director Information Security

Delaney & Bourton; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 147,600 - 221,400; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services group is seeking an Interim Security Director to lead their security function during a critical transformation period. This fully remote role requires proven experience at the director level with a strong background in security strategy and compliance. The candidate will oversee security operations, drive compliance with ISO 27001, and engage with senior stakeholders. An immediate start is required for this impactful interim assignment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating at Security Director or CISO level in complex environments.
• Strong background across security strategy, governance, risk, compliance, and operational delivery.
• Track record of leading audits and assurance programmes.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end security landscape, ensuring risk posture strengthens.
• Lead and stabilize the security function with clear direction and priorities.
• Drive security governance and compliance, particularly ISO 27001.

Skills

Security strategy

Governance risk compliance (GRC)

Incident response

Stakeholder engagement

ISO 27001 compliance

Job description

Interim Security Director | Outside IR35 | Remote (UK) | 6 Months+ | Immediate Start | Excellent Rate

I’m supporting a large, complex professional services group on the appointment of an Interim Security Director to lead and mature their security function during a critical period of growth and transformation.

This is an interim leadership role with full accountability for security strategy, operations, GRC and stakeholder engagement.

The role

You’ll take ownership of the end-to-end security landscape — technical, procedural and cultural — ensuring the organisation’s risk posture continues to strengthen while enabling business growth.

Key focus areas

• Leading and stabilising the security function, setting clear direction and priorities
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to embed security into business and technology initiatives
• Overseeing day-to-day security operations, incident response and business continuity
• Driving security governance, compliance and assurance (ISO 27001 in particular)
• Strengthening third-party and supplier security assurance
• Providing clear, actionable reporting on risk, maturity and progress to leadership

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience operating at Security Director / Head of Security / CISO level in complex environments (this company has 10k employees, c. £1bn turnover)
• Strong background across security strategy, governance, risk, compliance and operational delivery
• Comfortable influencing at exec level while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused
• Track record of leading audits, assurance programmes and incident response frameworks
• Fully remote (UK-based)
• Senior‑level interim assignment with genuine scope and impact
• Immediate requirement

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Contract

Job function

• Information Technology
• Professional Services and Computer and Network Security