Information Security Consulting Lead

Handelsbanken; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits package

Job summary

Handelsbanken in the United Kingdom is seeking an Information Security Consulting Lead to join our Information Security team. This is a high-impact role supporting a large portfolio of change initiatives, requiring broad security expertise, problem-solving, and stakeholder management to deliver secure technology.

You will lead a team of embedded security consultants (5–10), foster strong relationships with delivery leads and tech leads, and provide specialist guidance on secure architecture,

Qualifications

• Solid, practical and demonstrable information security experience across technical and non-technical areas.
• Good understanding of privacy concepts and how they apply to technology change initiatives.
• Experience supporting technology change initiatives to deliver secure solutions.
• Previous line management experience building and directing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct a team of 5–10 embedded information security consultants.
• Build deep, trust-based relationships with portfolio delivery leads and tech leads.
• Resolve a wide range of security and privacy issues across the change lifecycle.
• Identify and articulate security risks, driving appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Provide specialist advisory on information security best practice and UK regulatory requirements.
• Develop deep knowledge of the bank's secure change processes and gates.
• Promote adherence to risk management frameworks and related policies.

Skills

Information Security

Privacy

Technology Change

Line Management

Job description

Job Introduction

Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.

We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk. We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank. We also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you. Check our Handelsbanken website for further information.

The opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced ‘Information Security Consulting Lead’ to join our Information Security team. This is a critical and high-impact role supporting a large portfolio of change initiatives across the bank. This role requires strong technical breadth, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to context-switch rapidly. You’ll be the go-to person for resolving a wide range of security and privacy issues across the change lifecycle. This is not a traditional advisory role — you will be actively participating in solving information security problems, working closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, and collaboratively solve security challenges and ensure the team can continue to deliver a pace. This role is all about helping technology teams deliver securely. You’ll act as the first (and often final) point of call for your team, so a broad and deep understanding of security and privacy domains is essential — from secure architecture and threat modelling to data protection and regulatory compliance. You will need to be adept at handling complex problems that will require you to balance technical, security, regulatory and risk considerations alongside delivery timelines and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• People Management – You will lead and direct a team of 5 – 10 embedded information security consultants providing support, development, coaching and performance management.
• Relationship Management – You will build deep, trust based relationships with key stakeholders within the portfolio delivery leads and tech leads. You will attend key delivery forums such as project steerco’s, acting as the senior security representative. You will hold regular 1-2-1s with delivery leads and tech leads, fostering strong inter-personal relationships. You will interface with key stakeholders across the bank including 2LoD, Compliance, CIOs office, line of business teams and audit.
• Problem Solving – You will sit across the change portfolio supporting your team of embedded security consultants and their stakeholders with a wide range of issues from information security to privacy to stakeholder management.
• Risk Management – You will support your teams to identify and articulate risks, steering them towards appropriate treatment plans, documenting mitigating controls and ensuring these are actions within agreed timeframes. You will operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to your line manager.
• Advisory – You will provide specialist advice and interpretation of Information Security best practice and UK regulatory requirements to a range of different stakeholders as new products, processes and systems are developed. You will need to be aware of your own knowledge gaps and when & where to seek specialist input to solve a particular problem or query
• Subject Matter Expertise – You will develop a deep knowledge of the Banks secure change processes and procedures, shepherding your workstream through various assessments and approval gates
• Actively promotes and ensures adherence to the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring timely and appropriate escalation of concerns to relevant senior stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For

• Information Security - Solid, practical and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non technical aspects)
• Privacy – You don’t need to be a privacy expert but you will require a good understanding of core privacy concepts and how these apply to technology change initiatives
• Technology Change – Demonstrable experience of supporting technology change initiatives to deliver solutions securely
• Line Management – Previous experience leading and managing teams

Why join Handelsbanken

We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind. In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.

The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.