Senior Cybersecurity Lead: Turning Risks into Action

Globalprofessionals; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Globalprofessionals is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Lead to bridge security, delivery, and management across IT staff functions. You will translate cybersecurity work into concrete improvements and work within multidisciplinary Agile teams with product owners, platform specialists, and senior management.

Hybrid working arrangements apply. The role emphasizes translating risk into actionable tasks, driving strategic cybersecurity initiatives, and maturing security capabilities across teams to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with governance, risk management, and security improvement programs.
• Strong stakeholder management across operational, tactical, and executive levels.

Responsibilities

• Translate cybersecurity risks, audit findings, and roadmap items into clear, actionable work packages.
• Advise Product Owners, IT leads, and management on cybersecurity risks, priorities, and mitigation measures.
• Translate complex security topics into succinct, management-level insights to support decision-making on risk, investment, and prioritization.
• Coordinate teams, architects, suppliers, and specialists to accelerate security improvements.
• Support risk analyses, compliance activities, and follow-up on findings.
• Identify blockers, escalate as needed, and report progress, risks, and improvements.
• Drive professionalization of cybersecurity practices across the organization and foster team self-sufficiency.

Skills

Cybersecurity governance

Risk management

Security improvement

Agile

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Strategic communication

Cross-team leadership

Education

Higher professional or academic degree

Job description

Globalprofessionals is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Lead to bridge security, delivery, and management across IT staff functions. You will translate cybersecurity work into concrete improvements and work within multidisciplinary Agile teams with product owners, platform specialists, and senior management.

Hybrid working arrangements apply. The role emphasizes translating risk into actionable tasks, driving strategic cybersecurity initiatives, and maturing security capabilities across teams to