Lead Cybersecurity Steward – Driving Secure-by-Design Engineering

Job Description

Are you motivated by bridging security strategy with engineering execution?
You will play a critical role in aligning Digital Security, Cluster Leadership and Product Teams - ensuring security initiatives are embedded effectively and prioritised appropriately within engineering environments.

Core Responsibilities

Collaboration & Leadership Engagement

You will:

• Build a strong partnership with the Digital Security team to measure and validate compliance status and evidence efficiently
• Build highly productive partnerships with a variety of engineering teams
• Concisely deliver impactful updates and drive strong alignment with cluster leadership, particularly Engineering Directors and Principal Engineers
• Ensure security initiatives receive the necessary priority, support and resources

Supporting and Enabling Product Teams

The role includes:

• Setting expectations for product teams to implement strong security controls into code/workflows
• Collaborating on resolving issues in a timely fashion
• Supporting the embedding of security controls and guardrails into engineering pipelines and architectures
• Working across a wide range of engineering teams and architectures to ensure clear outcomes

Progress, Risk & Best Practice

You will:

• Regularly report to both Security and Cluster audiences on security controls
• Highlight progress and challenges faced and clearly articulate aligned dates, risks, delays
• Promote security awareness by sharing lessons learned, industry best practices and success stories across the Security Steward community and product teams/subdomains

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will act as the main liaison between Digital Security, Cluster Leadership, and Product Teams to ensure security initiatives are effective, proportionate, and aligned with business priorities. Appointed by the cluster head, you report directly to cluster leadership, with a strong functional connection to the central Digital Security Team and other Lead Cybersecurity Stewards. This reporting line is interim and could evolve.

The role bridges strategic objectives and technical execution, aligning security priorities with largely business-driven cluster goals and advocating for appropriate prioritisation and resources. The role emphasizes oversight, advisory support, and proactive engagement rather than direct ownership of security operations.

Success in the role requires strong security and technology acumen, stakeholder management and the ability to guide teams toward secure-by-design outcomes.

Do you have what it takes?

Technical Expertise

• Deep knowledge in cybersecurity principles, threat modeling, and security architecture
• Understands modern development languages such as Typescript, Python
• Well versed in CI/CD methodologies and cloud hosting such as AWS

Communication & Collaboration

• Ability to clearly articulate complex security concepts, situations and priorities to technical product teams, product management and leadership audiences
• Ability to build trust and foster cooperation across multiple functions and teams within the organization

Problem-solving & Resilience

• Key aptitude for identifying security challenges and adapting to evolving threats with practical solutions
• Ability to deal with high stress situations impacting our business and technical teams and act as an excellent leader under stress with high resilience in adverse situations

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.