Senior Security Consultant Assurance
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Senior Security Consultant Assurance
Permanent (up to 3 days WFH)
Manchester (M50 3SP) Staines (TW18 3DZ) or London (EC2R 7HJ) or Leeds (LS5 3BF)
Salary from: 78 000 DOE and location 10% bonus fantastic benefits
37.5 hours per week
We consider all types of flexibility including locations hours and working patterns.
We make health happen
At Bupa were passionate about technology. With colleagues customers patients and residents in mind youll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.
Right from the start youll become part of our digital & data strategy joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.
As a Senior Security Consultant youll be a trusted expert and mentor guiding our teams through complex security challenges. Youll lead critical assessments provide clear and confident advice on security assurance and controls and embed best practices across a variety of delivery approaches.
This role calls for deep technical knowledge combined with strong communication skills to influence and drive security excellence across multiple projects and products whether in agile or traditional environments.
How youll help us make health happen
- Define clear security requirements for programmes and agile initiatives including user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Lead security design reviews and provide expert guidance on control implementation.
- Identify and manage complex security risks creating practical mitigation strategies.
- Embed security throughout product and programme lifecycles across diverse delivery models.
- Manage escalations and advise on critical security decisions impacting delivery.
- Present security findings and recommendations to senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Provide expert consultation on technical security decisions during development and delivery.
- Support security assessments for vendors and third-party integrations.
- Collaborate with product owners project managers and technical leads to integrate security seamlessly.
- Champion a security-first culture and promote awareness across teams.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback loops.
- Coordinate with other security functions to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Contribute to process improvements and ensure consistent application of security standards.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Extensive experience in information security including security consulting and assurance roles.
- Strong knowledge of cyber security principles practices and emerging technologies.
- Proven ability to lead complex security assessments and assurance activities.
- Expertise in cloud security concepts and best practices across major platforms (Azure GCP)
- Skilled in engaging and influencing senior executives technical leaders and diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills able to simplify complex security topics.
- Deep understanding of security frameworks and standards (e.g. NIST CSF ISO 27001 CIS Controls OWASP).
- Experience embedding security within agile delivery and traditional project methodologies.
- Ability to work on complex multi-disciplinary programmes and product initiatives.
- Advanced security certifications (CISSP CISM etc.) and specialist knowledge across multiple domains (preferred).
- Familiarity with regulated environments and large-scale organisational contexts (preferred).
- Strong capability in security reviews control validation and assurance methodologies.
- Understanding of security testing approaches tools and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
- Awareness of security implications of emerging technologies such as AI ML and IoT.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people.Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health from mental and physical to financialsocialand environmental wellbeing.We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
25 days holiday increasing through length of service with option to buy or sell
Bupa medical insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Target bonus of 10% based on individual and company performance
Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa
Werea health insurer and provider. With no shareholders our customers are our focus.Our people are alldriven by the same purpose helping people live longer healthier happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being bravecaringand responsible in everything we do.
We encourageall ofour people to Be you at Bupawe champion diversity and we understand the importance of our peoplerepresentingthe communities and customers we serve.Thatswhy weespeciallyencourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet theminimumcriteria for the role.Werecommitted to ensuringyouretreated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who maybenefitfrom accommodations to the recruitment process.
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Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
ITLocations:
Home Based North c/o Bupa PlaceRequired Experience:
Senior IC
