Strategic CISO: Cloud, Compliance & FinTech Security Leader

MCO (MyComplianceOffice); Leinster; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MCO (MyComplianceOffice) seeks an experienced Chief Information Security Officer to lead information security, governance, risk, and compliance for our software products serving financial services clients. You will drive audit readiness, cloud security across AWS/OCI, and enterprise security programs with a strong focus on customer and auditor interactions.

The role requires translating risk into business terms for executives and engineering teams, maturing SDLC security, and building a

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level information security, cybersecurity, governance, risk, or security leadership experience in software/enterprise environments.
• Experience leading audit and certification programmes with completion, remediation, and continual control monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, secure SDLC, and cloud security controls.
• Experience governing cloud security in AWS/Azure/OCI with shared responsibility models and IAM, encryption, and monitoring.
• Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles with RFPs, security questionnaires, customer DD, audits, and contract reviews.
• Ability to translate technical risk into business language for executives and engineering teams.
• Experience developing auditable policies, standards, metrics, and evidence processes.
• Proven track record influencing engineering and operations to build secure products at pace.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and continuously improve the enterprise information security strategy, roadmap, policies, standards, and operating model.
• Own the security governance, risk, and compliance programme, including risk assessment, control design, issue tracking, executive reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the company’s security certification and audit readiness agenda, including ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, NIST-based controls, cloud security benchmarks, privacy/datarights, and due diligence for financial services customers.
• Manage external and internal security audits, including planning, evidence collection, control testing, remediation tracking, auditor engagement, and executive communication.
• Partner with sales, product, legal, and customer success to respond to security sections of RFPs and due diligence questionnaires.
• Define and audit secure software development standards for cloud delivery across OCI and AWS, including IAM, encryption, network security, logging, vulnerability management, and change control.
• Establish and mature secure SDLC practices, threat modelling, dependency risk, SAST/DAST, IaC review, CI/CD security, and release governance.
• Develop security as a culture through awareness, training, security champions, and engineering enablement.
• Lead incident response planning and readiness, playbooks, tabletop exercises, breach coordination, and executive communication.
• Provide clear, business-focused reporting on security posture, risks, audit status, and investment priorities to CIO and exec leadership.

Skills

Security leadership

Audit & certification

Cloud security

RFP & security questionnaires

Executive communication

Policy & controls

Incident response

Security culture & enablement

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

OCI

Azure

Job description

MCO (MyComplianceOffice) seeks an experienced Chief Information Security Officer to lead information security, governance, risk, and compliance for our software products serving financial services clients. You will drive audit readiness, cloud security across AWS/OCI, and enterprise security programs with a strong focus on customer and auditor interactions.

The role requires translating risk into business terms for executives and engineering teams, maturing SDLC security, and building a