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

JR United Kingdom; Exeter; Remote; GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech organization is seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer to manage compliance and cybersecurity efforts. This crucial role involves acting as DPO, implementing efficient controls, and driving automation initiatives in a fully remote setting with occasional team meet-ups. Ideal candidates will show capability in balancing risk and agility.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in compliance and infosec.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong regulatory knowledge (UK GDPR, ISO27001).

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance frameworks and policies across the business.
• Act as DPO managing breaches, ROPAs, and DPIAs.
• Design secure technical and organizational controls.

Skills

Compliance frameworks (UK GDPR, DPA 2018, ISO27001, FCA AISP)

Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Incident response

Collaboration and communication

Technical and organisational controls

Compliance automation initiatives

Education

CIPP/E

CISSP

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

Client: VirtueTech Recruitment Group

Location: Exeter, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

Job Description:

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

My client is building a lean, automation-focused team and is 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 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 this role, please send an updated CV as soon as possible.