Security Engineering Lead

AJ Bell Management Limited; Manchester, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Pension with matched contributions

Discretionary bonus scheme

Share schemes

Health Cash Plan

Free gym

Enhanced family leave

Travel and bike loan schemes

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

AJ Bell is seeking a Principal Information Security Engineer to join our security engineering department in Manchester. You will support the Senior Information Security Engineering Manager by providing technical leadership and oversight across the Information Security Engineering team, ensuring BAU work and project engagements meet high standards.

You will act as the team’s primary technical lead, drive design validation, and ensure engineering outputs align with our security strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing enterprise security platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft security stack.
• Experience securing diverse end-user compute environments (Windows/macOS/Linux/mobile).
• Knowledge of firewalls and cloud security solutions.
• Deep understanding of SIEM, PAM, IGA, and related security outputs.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical escalation point for the team and guide complex challenges.
• Oversee day-to-day security engineering execution and ensure BAU work meets SLAs.
• Ensure quality and consistency of engineering outputs across projects and tasks.
• Support delivery of the security tooling roadmap and align with security strategy.
• Collaborate with architecture and operations to integrate controls across the estate.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering team.

Skills

Enterprise security platforms

Microsoft security stack

Windows/macOS/Linux/mobile

Firewall & cloud security

Information security risk management

ISO27001/NIST

Automation & scripting

Tools

SIEM

PAM

IGA

Job description

AJ Bell is seeking a Principal Information Security Engineer to join our security engineering department in Manchester. You will support the Senior Information Security Engineering Manager by providing technical leadership and oversight across the Information Security Engineering team, ensuring BAU work and project engagements meet high standards.

You will act as the team’s primary technical lead, drive design validation, and ensure engineering outputs align with our security strategy.