Senior Security Engineer I

RELX; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking an Information Security professional to manage security, compliance and risk assessment activities across internal and external stakeholders. You will strengthen controls, respond to customer security requirements and protect information assets.

You will coordinate audits and due diligence, engage with customers, auditors and regulators, and partner with Legal, Technology and business teams to remediate risks and improve governance across on-premises, cloud

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in information security, cyber security, or IT risk management.
• Familiar with ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, PCI and Cyber Essentials.
• Ability to communicate complex security topics to diverse audiences.
• Experience handling audits, due diligence questionnaires and evidence requests.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support customer security reviews, due diligence questionnaires and audits.
• Coordinate evidence collection, assess control effectiveness and maintain documentation.
• Support security and compliance programs aligned with major frameworks.
• Serve as client-facing information security SME, providing clear, timely responses.
• Partner with Security, Legal, and business teams on requirements and remediation.
• Help maintain security policies, controls and regional compliance documentation.
• Assess programs to strengthen governance, vulnerability management and monitoring.
• Communicate risks and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Information security

Cybersecurity

IT risk

Compliance

Job description

Are you passionate about helping customers navigate complex security and compliance requirements while building trust and enabling business growth?

Do you enjoy collaborating across technology, legal, and business teams to strengthen security controls, manage risk, and support a secure, resilient organisation?

About the Business

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

About the Role

As an Information Security professional, you will manage and support security, compliance and risk assessment activities across internal and external stakeholders, including customers, auditors, service providers and regulators. You will play a key role in strengthening security controls, supporting compliance initiatives, responding to customer security requirements and helping protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of organisational systems and information.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support customer security reviews, due diligence questionnaires, virtual/on-site assessments and internal and external compliance or certification audits.
• Coordinate evidence collection, assess control effectiveness, track findings through resolution and maintain organised documentation and repositories.
• Support security and compliance programmes aligned with frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST 800 Series, SOC 2, PCI and Cyber Essentials.
• Serve as a client-facing Information Security subject matter expert, providing clear, accurate and timely responses that build customer trust and support new and existing business.
• Partner with Security, Technology, Legal, RFP and business teams on customer requirements, contracts, security risks, controls and remediation activities.
• Help maintain security policies, procedures, controls, SIG responses and supporting documentation, including applicable regional requirements.
• Assess security programmes and identify opportunities to strengthen governance, vulnerability management, monitoring, controls and organisational security practices.
• Communicate security risks, findings, recommendations and progress effectively to technical teams, business stakeholders, customers, auditors and senior leadership.

Requirements

• Significant experience in information security, cybersecurity, IT risk, compliance or a related technology discipline; equivalent practical experience is welcomed.
• Strong knowledge of security across on-premises, colocation and cloud environments, including cloud security and compliance technologies.
• Working knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, PCI and Cyber Essentials, with experience supporting assessments or audits.
• Strong understanding of security governance and controls, vulnerability management, monitoring and alerting, and system, security and software development life cycles.
• Experience managing customer security enquiries, due diligence questionnaires, audits, assessments, evidence requests and remediation or follow-up activities.
• Strong project management, organisational, prioritisation, problem-solving and change management skills, with the ability to coordinate work across multiple teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation and customer-service skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex security topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Relevant security or risk certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or comparable credentials are valued but not required.

Benefits

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

Hiring and Accessibility

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

We are an equal opportunity employer

qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic informatio