Engineering Manager, Security

Insignis Cash; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

5% Pension contributions

Private medical insurance with Vitaliy

Health cash Plan

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Monthly team lunches

Quarterly company socials

Job summary

Insignis Cash in London is seeking a senior information security engineer to join and shape the security culture. You will report to the CTO, partner with compliance and risk, and lead hands-on strategy from day one, expanding as the business grows.

Responsibilities include owning the security architecture across Azure and Kubernetes, driving ISO 27001, managing risk registers and policy suites, guiding threat modelling, incident response, and third-party security.

Qualifications

• Experience leading information security in a regulated financial services or fintech environment.
• Strong working knowledge of FCA regulatory requirements (SYSC, operational resilience).
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud-native security on Azure and modern identity architectures.
• Proven delivery of ISO 27001 certification or equivalent ISMS framework.

Responsibilities

• Own information security strategy, aligned to FCA requirements, ISO 27001, and risk appetite.
• Chair security groups; prepare materials for board and risk committees.
• Lead ISO 27001 programme including audit readiness and continual improvement.
• Define and enforce security architecture across Azure-native, Kubernetes-based platform.
• Lead threat modelling, penetration testing, vulnerability management, identity governance.
• Drive security for AI/ML, crypto-agility, and third-party risk management.

Skills

Security leadership

ISO 27001

FCA SYSC knowledge

Threat modelling

Incident management

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Board communication

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Kafka

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

Auth0

Entra ID

Defender

Sentinel

Job description

We are a fast-growing FinTech company looking for a talented and enthusiastic engineer to join our team. We are expanding, making this a perfect position if you would like to have a significant impact on our company’s growth and develop your role and career as the business evolves. You will join a team where your ideas will be welcomed and valued.

This is a senior individual contributor and leadership role. You will report to the CTO, with a functional dotted line to the Head of Compliance. You will work closely with engineering, compliance, and risk functions, and represent security at board level. You will be the architect of a security culture that is rigorous, pragmatic, and commercially aware. The role will be hands on at the outset.

Role responsibilities

Security strategy & governance:

• Own the information security strategy, aligned to FCA requirements, ISO 27001, and the firm’s risk appetite.
• Chair the Information Security Working Group; prepare materials for the board and Insignis Risk Committee.
• Lead the ISO 27001 programme, including ongoing audit readiness and continual improvement.
• Maintain and evolve the ISMS, risk register, and security policy suite.
• Represent security in regulatory engagements, including FCA supervisory requests and third-party due diligence.

Technical security & architecture:

• Define and enforce the security architecture across our Azure-native, Kubernetes-based platform.
• Govern security controls across the full stack: Kafka, .NET/C#, Vue.js, Kong API Gateway, Auth0, and Salesforce.
• Lead threat modelling, penetration testing, and vulnerability management programmes.
• Own identity and access management strategy, including Entra ID, Auth0, and partner federation.
• Drive security engineering best practices within product and platform teams.
• Build and govern security for AI and machine-learning systems — covering model and data governance, defences against prompt injection and model abuse, and safe adoption of generative-AI tooling across the business.
• Lead the firm's quantum-safe transition to post-quantum cryptography — maintaining a cryptographic inventory, assessing exposure, and planning a crypto-agile migration to NIST-standardised PQC algorithms.

Compliance & regulatory:

• Ensure security controls meet FCA SYSC obligations, SYSC 15A operational risk requirements and ISO27001 standard.
• Work closely with the Head of Compliance on regulatory horizon scanning, security-related policy obligations, and audit responses.
• Partner with the DPO on data governance and breach notification obligations.
• Manage third-party and supply chain security risk, including critical outsourcing oversight.

Incident management & operations:

• Own the security incident response plan; lead major incident management for cyber events.
• Operate and improve security monitoring, SIEM, and alerting across the Azure estate.
• Run the security awareness and training programme for all ~180 staff.
• Manage relationships with external SOC, MSSP, and specialist security partners.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience leading information security in a regulated financial services or fintech environment.
• Strong working knowledge of FCA regulatory requirements (SYSC, operational resilience).
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud-native security on Azure (Entra ID, Defender, Sentinel, Key Vault, Policy).
• Proven delivery of ISO 27001 certification or equivalent ISMS framework.
• Ability to translate technical risk into board-level narrative clearly and credibly.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams — you are comfortable in a technical conversation and a risk committee meeting.
• Familiarity with API security patterns (Kong, OAuth 2.0, OIDC) and modern identity architectures.
• Background in or strong exposure to software engineering — understanding of SDLC security, threat modelling, and DevSecOps.
• Experience managing a security team and developing talent toward senior positions.
• Familiarity with Kafka-backed event architectures and the security considerations they introduce.
• Awareness of AI and machine-learning security risks and emerging AI governance frameworks (e.g. NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001).
• Understanding of post-quantum cryptography and quantum-safe migration and crypto-agility planning.
• 25 days holiday (exc. Bank holidays)
• 5% Pension contributions
• Private medical insurance with Vitality
• Health cash Plan offering contributions to dental, optical and much more
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Monthly team lunches, quarterly company socials

Working pattern

• Hybrid working pattern in London office, 3 days in the office(Tuesday to Thursday), 2 days remote.