About the Role
This role involves building security capabilities for daily protection and ensuring new developments are secure from the outset within a $200m transformation program. You will collaborate with technology teams, underwriters, operations leads, and senior stakeholders to address complex security challenges, including distributed data, agentic AI, and supply chain risk. The goal is to enable business success safely by designing, building, and implementing security solutions against sophisticated cyber threats, translating business needs into pragmatic security requirements.
Responsibilities
- Take the lead on a wide portfolio of projects.
- Manage a range of engagements concurrently.
- Provide direct security engagement.
- Act as an escalation point for junior team members and across technology, data, and business peers and stakeholders.
- Bring together an aggregate view of risk across the portfolio to manage security resources.
- Report overall status to key stakeholders.
- Provide clear recommendations for action.
- Ensure the safety and security of the business by designing, building, and implementing security solutions.
- Translate business needs into pragmatic and effective security requirements and solutions.
Requirements
- Security architecture across cloud environments, primarily Azure and GCP, with some AWS.
- Experience with regulatory frameworks in financial services: FCA, Lloyd's, NYDFS.
- Experience designing successful security solutions and driving innovation.
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and supporting the implementation of new technologies.
- Experience communicating security in context to various audiences (board, regulator, underwriters).
- Experience enabling business strategies by embedding pragmatic security solutions into business transformation with tangible outcomes.
- Automation-first thinking with hands-on experience with scripting or coding.
- Understanding of the security implications of large-scale data science and AI workloads.
Skills
- Security architecture
- Cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Regulatory frameworks (FCA, Lloyd's, NYDFS)
- Security solution design
- Technology evaluation and selection
- Security communication
- Business transformation
- Scripting or coding
- Data science security implications
- AI security implications
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Commensurate with experience
Benefits
- Bonus
- Contributory pension
- 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox days
- 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service
- Private medical for all the family
About the Company
- Hiscox is a global, specialist insurer headquartered in Bermuda and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- With 3,000 employees and 32 offices in 12 countries, Hiscox offers opportunities for talented and ambitious individuals.
- The company prioritizes strong values such as integrity and courage, with a focus on teamwork and doing the right thing for each other and customers.
- Hiscox is undergoing a genuine transformation, dealing with complex risks and demanding regulations.
- The company underwrites cyber risk, providing its security team with real-world threat intelligence.
Equal Opportunity
- Hiscox is committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which they believe drives success.
- They hire the best people for the job.
