Senior Security Engineer & Tech Leader — AI & Cloud

Compare the Market; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Compare the Market is seeking an experienced security engineering leader to drive architectural decisions and establish a secure, scalable platform. You will influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with product and engineering teams to embed security-by-design across cloud platforms and AI-enabled technologies.

You will lead initiatives to strengthen vulnerability management, data security, and security operations while guiding incident response and continuous improvement in

Qualifications

• Experience setting technical vision and architectural decisions balancing customer, business, and security.
• Knowledge across Cyber Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, Data Security, Security Engineering, and Cloud Security.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and modern distributed/microservices architectures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to align teams and drive results.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security engineering initiatives across our Information Security domain and shape technical direction.
• Act as a trusted technical leader, mentoring engineers and guiding security controls and best practices.
• Develop long-term security strategies and roadmaps to meet business needs and evolving threats.
• Partner with engineering, product, and technology teams to embed security-by-design across cloud platforms.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of new security capabilities, including AI-powered tooling.
• Support response to cyber security incidents and drive continuous improvement of security operations.

Skills

Technical vision

Architectural decisions

Cloud: AWS/GCP

Security domains

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder management

Job description

Compare the Market is seeking an experienced security engineering leader to drive architectural decisions and establish a secure, scalable platform. You will influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with product and engineering teams to embed security-by-design across cloud platforms and AI-enabled technologies.

You will lead initiatives to strengthen vulnerability management, data security, and security operations while guiding incident response and continuous improvement in