Security & Compliance Engineer: Build Automated Controls

Cyber StrategiX; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in the UK

Work from abroad up to 20 days/year

25 days holiday + holidays extended

Pension auto-enrolment

Private medical plus family cover

Life insurance

Coaching & therapy sessions

Parental leave up to 6 months

Claude AI tools access

WFH setup support

Job summary

Griffin, a fully regulated UK bank powering fintechs, seeks an Engineer 1.5 to own security, compliance and assurance. You will translate standards into practical controls, build them with the engineering team, and drive certifications and audits across ISO 27001, SWIFT, SOC 2 and FPS.

You’ll lead evidence collection, automation, and governance with senior stakeholders. You’ll report across engineering and security to strengthen resilience, automation, and customer confidence while shipping code

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering background turning standards into controls.
• Experience in security, compliance, risk or assurance within a technical env.
• Knowledge of change and release management, incident management, operational resilience and third-party governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cyber security governance controls in production.
• Lead certifications and attestations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, SWIFT, FPS).
• Own internal/external audits and customer due diligence requests.
• Drive engineering risk assessments, control activities, chaos testing and backup/restore.
• Improve release and change management processes and policy adherence.
• Lead post-incident reviews and share learnings with stakeholders.
• Contribute to operational resilience (DR plans, IBS mapping).

Skills

Engineering

Security

Compliance

Audit expertise

Code automation

Change management

Incident response

Documentation

Tools

ISO 27001

SOC 2

SWIFT

FPS

Job description

Griffin, a fully regulated UK bank powering fintechs, seeks an Engineer 1.5 to own security, compliance and assurance. You will translate standards into practical controls, build them with the engineering team, and drive certifications and audits across ISO 27001, SWIFT, SOC 2 and FPS.

You’ll lead evidence collection, automation, and governance with senior stakeholders. You’ll report across engineering and security to strengthen resilience, automation, and customer confidence while shipping code