Remote Cybersecurity Lead - Fintech Security & Risk

Coverflex; United States; Remote; USD 74,000 - 108,000; Full time

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All Coverflex benefits apply

Job summary

Coverflex is seeking a Cybersecurity Lead to own and drive security across multiple markets in a remote Europe setting. You’ll lead hands-on security work, strengthen security operations, and align risk with business goals while protecting customer data and ensuring ISMS continuity.

You’ll oversee risk management, supplier resilience, and governance, reporting to the CTO. Fluency in English is essential; knowledge of Portuguese/Spanish/Italian is a plus.

Qualifications

• Senior, hands-on security experience in a regulated fintech, payments, SaaS, or similarly high-trust environment.
• Personally conducted security investigations, tuned detections, assessed cloud and identity controls, reviewed architectures, and validated vulnerability remediation
• Strong cloud, application/product security, IAM, detection/response, vulnerability management, and third-party risk judgement
• Experience owning ISO 27001 or comparable assurance while keeping the programme outcome-focused
• Ability to build a proportionate security programme in a scaling company, not only operate within a mature enterprise function
• Credibility with engineers and the ability to translate technical detail into clear business recommendations
• Fluent professional English

Responsibilities

• Lead growth of cybersecurity across multi-market fintech with risk-based controls.
• Identify material risks early and strengthen security operations and third-party assurance.
• Protect customer data and support reliable payment and benefits services while preserving ISO 27001 and contractual commitments.
• Reduce friction in launches, enterprise sales, renewals, and audits.

Skills

English

Security leadership

Executive communication

Security governance

Tools

AWS security tooling

GCP security tooling

SIEM

EDR/MDM

Identity/SSO/MFA

Privileged-access tooling

Vulnerability scanning

App security testing

Penetration testing workflows

Jira/Notion

Scripting/automation

Job description

Coverflex is seeking a Cybersecurity Lead to own and drive security across multiple markets in a remote Europe setting. You’ll lead hands-on security work, strengthen security operations, and align risk with business goals while protecting customer data and ensuring ISMS continuity.

You’ll oversee risk management, supplier resilience, and governance, reporting to the CTO. Fluency in English is essential; knowledge of Portuguese/Spanish/Italian is a plus.