Cyber Security Technical Manager

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About The Role

Reporting into the Chief Information Security Officer, the Cyber Security Technical Manager is responsible for leading Cyber Security Engineering and Identity & Access Management across Motability Operations, shaping our digital footprint across both cloud services and software development to ensure secure delivery.

Additionally the role serves as the principal for providing security consultancy across several programmes, from secure design and requirements setting, through to security testing and sign-off.

The Cyber Security Technical Manager also serves as the senior technical security authority, working with other managers and functions to ensure security principles are reflected in all practices. Significant focus will be on building strong relationships with stakeholders and influencing positive security outcomes, while maintaining the speed of delivery.

Motability Operations has invested in the principles of secure by design and placing security professionals close to delivery teams. Therefore, a major part of the role will be alignment and line management of the cyber security engineering teams, incorporating nine mixed discipline cyber security professionals across several business areas/programmes.

About You

This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about the technical aspects of cyber security, protecting customer data and the ensuring cyber resiliency.

You will have gained hands-on experience successfully influencing the design and implementation of security across identity & access management, cloud infrastructure and software development. As such, you will have expert level knowledge of OWASP and the Cloud Controls Matrix (or similar).

You will be a strong communicator, able to influence teams and programme stakeholders at various levels. The candidate will also have a strong desire to shift security practices and tooling left, giving teams access to early feedback on their work.

This role is most suited to someone who is a self-starter, thrives for quality and makes others better.

Minimum Criteria

• Considerable experience in cyber security; Experience of successfully leading others within a cyber security function.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CISM are advantageous.
• Experience of both securing cloud services and secure development are essential.
• Supplier and stakeholder management experience with the ability to lead and influence business decisions.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 00,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.