Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

Sellick Partnership; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager to enhance risk management processes. The position involves identifying risks, providing strategic guidance, and leading a team within a collaborative environment. Excellent benefits include flexible working options and a substantial pension contribution.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Exceptional pension - employer contribution of 27%

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Learning and development opportunities

Wellness programs and gym membership offers

Qualifications

• Expertise in risk management and assessment.
• Experience in cloud security with AWS or Azure.
• Understanding of UK Government's Secure by Design principles.

Responsibilities

• Identify and mitigate cyber-related risks for the organization.
• Lead and guide risk management activities effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high performance.

Skills

Information risk assessment

Applied security capability

Protective security

Threat understanding

Cloud security

Education

Chartered Cyber Professional or working towards

Job description

Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager
54,857+additional allowance up to 25,543 (80,400)
Multiple locations: Newcastle/Leeds/Oldham/Bristol/Swansea/Nottingham/Birmingham
Hybrid working: 60% attendance per week
Permanent

Overview: Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager
Sellick Partnership have partnered with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to recruit a Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager. To ensure agility as part of continuous the organisation, this role is integral to ensure that information and security risk associated with a service group are visible and responded to in a collaborative and visible manner. The role holder identifies, understands, and mitigates cyber-related risks. The role holder provides corporate risk processes, and the Chief Data & Security Officer and Service Owners with advice to help them make well informed risk-based decisions. The role sits as part of a wider security team reporting to the Head of Cyber Security.

Benefits: Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

• Flexible working options encouraging work-life balance.
• Exceptional pension - employer contribution of an average of 27%.
• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities.
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• Cycle to work, gym membership offers, high street discounts.
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing.

Responsibilities: Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

• Work day-to-day within a service group matrix team as part of CI and/or a project to ensure agility and flexibility of service and products is kept as part of any ambitions and change processes.
• Report to the Head of Cyber Security & Service Owner to provide a risk picture of the service group and with the wider Cyber team to develop good practice and share experience.
• Guide and develop specialist activities of others, actively promoting development in the applicable skills, providing leadership to other risk managers, and sharing best practice widely across DVSA, the wider department and government as required.
• Lead and undertake risk management activities against the hardest and most novel scenarios, while applying the fundamental principles of risk management to a range of complex scenarios.
• Execute management responsibilities effectively, working with, leading, and acting as a role model for team members and colleagues, ensuring capabilities to achieve successful delivery of business performance whilst maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial resources delegated in line with the Civil Service values.
• Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives. Establishes a strong direction and a persuasive future vision; managing and engaging with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
• Work in collaboration with fellow Corporate Senior Leaders (CSL) across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.
• Lead continual service improvement practices for Data and Cyber Security, motivating colleagues to engage and deliver modernisation and transformation in their respective teams.

Essential requirements and qualifications: Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

• Information risk assessment and risk management (expert).
• Applied security capability (practitioner) - security requirement elicitation, application of security capabilities, provision of assurance and confidence, security, and risk reporting.
• Protective security (expert).
• Threat understanding (practitioner).
• Technical Cloud platform (understanding).
• Awareness of the UK Government's Secure by Design principles.
• A Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
• Demonstrate experience in cloud security across at least one platform of AWS or Azure and be willing to undertake formal training and certifications in this area.

Apply
Please apply by Sunday 6 July 2025 to be considered. For a detailed job specification please contact Greg Jones at Sellick Partnership.

This role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Capability-Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance. The base pay is 54,857. In addition to this, the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to 25,543. The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process. For further information and supporting links on this, please contact Greg Jones at Sellick Partnership.

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