Senior Information Security Engineer - £75,000 per annum - Fully Remote - FinTech

ZipRecruiter; Bolton; Remote; GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer to lead compliance and cybersecurity efforts. The remote role offers a competitive salary of £75,000 and involves significant responsibilities in managing data protection and regulatory compliance. Ideal candidates will have experience with UK GDPR and possess strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Lead and maintain compliance frameworks with up-to-date policies.
• Proven experience in compliance and information security.
• Strong regulatory knowledge with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance frameworks to ensure policies across data protection.
• Act as DPO managing SARs, breaches, and delivering training.
• Design secure controls and drive compliance automation initiatives.

Skills

Compliance frameworks

Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Cybersecurity

Regulatory knowledge (UK GDPR, ISO27001)

Communication skills

Education

Relevant certifications (CIPP/E, CISSP)

Job description

Job Description

Senior Information Security Engineer - £75,000 per annum - Fully Remote - FinTech

My client are building a lean, automation-focused team and looking for a Compliance and Information Security Engineer to lead data protection, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity. This strategic, hands-on role involves acting as DPO and embedding scalable, efficient controls across the business. Ideal for someone collaborative and pragmatic, who can balance risk and agility in a fast-paced startup environment.

The role is looking for someone asap and will be offering a fully remote opportunity with the occasional team meet-ups in London.

Key Skills:

• Lead and maintain compliance frameworks (UK GDPR, DPA 2018, ISO27001, FCA AISP), ensuring up-to-date policies, procedures, and controls across data protection, information security, and regulatory risk.
• Act as Data Protection Officer (DPO), managing SARs, breaches, ROPAs, and DPIAs, while delivering scalable training and awareness across the company.
• Design and implement secure, low-overhead technical and organisational controls, overseeing incident response, vendor security, and external certifications.
• Drive compliance automation initiatives to minimise manual processes and support scalable growth, conducting internal audits and monitoring to maintain high standards.
• Collaborate across teams to embed proportionate, automation-friendly compliance and security practices, and communicate risks clearly to leadership.
• Proven experience in compliance and infosec, with strong regulatory knowledge (UK GDPR, ISO27001), excellent communication skills, and ideally relevant certifications (e.g. CIPP/E, CISSP).

If you are interested in the open role please come back on this with an updated CV as soon as possible.

Senior Information Security Engineer - £75,000 per annum - Fully Remote - FinTech