Migration - Tech Cluster Lead

BT Group; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% on target annual bonus

Private GP 24/7 for you and family

Carer leave

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave 18/

BT product discounts

Pension scheme 5% plus 10%

Holiday purchase scheme

Job summary

BT Group is safeguarding its customers, platforms, information and reputation by embedding security into change, migration and service delivery from design through live operation.

This IT Security Lead role focuses on strengthening security controls across Core Platforms – Migrations, delivering governance, resilience and regulatory alignment at pace.

Qualifications

• Security engineering to identify risks, prioritise remediation and work with engineering teams to strengthen platform security.
• Influence stakeholders, communicate risk and secure support for security initiatives.
• Embed security-by-design into platform change, migration and transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Assess the security landscape across legacy and migrating platforms to strengthen controls and reduce risk.
• Review security posture, identify vulnerabilities and drive remediation through prioritised plans.
• Partner with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to embed security into platform changes.
• Provide reporting, insights and recommendations on security risks to support decisions.
• Champion governance, resilience and audit-compliance in security standards and practices.

Skills

Security Engineering

Technical Risk Mgmt

Stakeholder Influence

Security-by-Design

Job description

About the role

This role is critical to protecting BT’s customers, platforms, information and reputation by ensuring security risks are identified, governed and remediated across Core Platforms – Migrations. The IT Security Lead supports secure delivery, operational resilience and regulatory alignment by embedding security into change, migration and service delivery activity from design through to live operation.

What you’ll be doing

• Assess the current security landscape across legacy and migrating platforms, identifying opportunities to strengthen security controls and reduce risk.
• Review current security posture, identify vulnerabilities and control gaps, and drive remediation through prioritised improvement plans.
• Partner with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to embed security-by-design into platform change and transformation initiatives.
• Provide clear reporting, insights and recommendations on security risks and priorities to support effective decision-making.
• Champion continuous improvement in security governance, resilience and ways of working, ensuring compliance with security standards and audit requirements.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Security Engineering & Technical Risk Management
  Ability to identify security risks and vulnerabilities, prioritise remediation, and work with engineering teams to strengthen platform security.
• Stakeholder Influence & Business Case Development
  Strong influencing skills with the ability to communicate risk, build business cases, and secure stakeholder support for security initiatives.
• Security-by-Design in Complex Platform Environments
  Experience embedding security into platform change, migration, and transformation programmes while driving practical security improvements
  

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Enterprise Platform & Migration Experience
  Experience working within large-scale platform migrations, transformation programmes, or complex enterprise technology environments.
• Cloud & Modern Infrastructure Security
  Knowledge of cloud security principles, infrastructure security controls, and securing hybrid technology environments.
• Vulnerability & Patch Management
  Experience overseeing vulnerability remediation, patch governance, secure configuration, and risk prioritisation across multiple technology stacks.
• Security Governance & Assurance
  Understanding of security policies, control frameworks, audit activities, and compliance requirements within regulated environments.
• Architecture & Security-by-Design Principles
  Ability to contribute to solution design reviews and embed security considerations into engineering and architecture decisions.
• Telecommunications or Critical National Infrastructure Experience
  Experience working in telecoms, network services, or highly resilient operational environments where security and availability are critical.
• Security Certifications
  Professional qualifications such as CISSP, CISM, Security+, ISO27001, CCSK or equivalent experience.
• Incident & Problem Management Exposure
  Experience supporting security incidents, root cause analysis, operational resilience activities, and post-incident improvement programmes.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life.

You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.