Lead Data Security Engineer at Takeaway | City of London, England, GB | Rezi

Lead Data Security Engineer at Takeaway

Lead Data Security Engineer

Takeaway · City of London, England, GB

1 months ago

Lead Data Security Engineer

Takeaway · City of London, England, GB

2 months ago
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About the Role

As a Lead Data Security Engineer, you will define the technical direction for security at JET, shaping how we protect customer experiences globally. This role involves translating business risks into a scalable, proactive defense strategy that enables growth. You will work at the intersection of technology and business strategy, ensuring our security framework supports the company's mission.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly inside data teams as an embedded security partner to understand their building processes, data handling, and actual risk profiles.
  • Build secure solutions alongside data teams through collaborative engineering.
  • Identify recurring issue patterns and collaborate with central security engineering to fix systemic vulnerabilities.
  • Act as a two-way bridge connecting security standards with real-world data practices.
  • Design, build, and maintain automated workflows to detect and fix data security risks at scale.
  • Deploy continuous monitoring, automated guardrails, and auto-remediation scripts across cloud environments.
  • Engineer CI/CD gates and infrastructure-as-code baselines to stop data leaks before code deployment.
  • Support the rollout of encryption, masking, data discovery, classification, and access governance.
  • Secure LLM and AI pipelines by guarding against prompt injection and tracking data lineage.
  • Prioritize Wiz and DSPM findings by context to implement fixes, while documenting tools to enable a "Security-as-Code" mindset.

Requirements

  • Deep, hands-on technical skills in data security, including experience building and running controls like DSPM, DLP, data classification, encryption, or access governance.
  • Strong automation and scripting skills, comfortable translating security goals into working code, remediation scripts, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience embedding automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines, working collaboratively with developers and data engineers.
  • Practical cloud data security experience, including object storage security.
  • Solid understanding of GDPR and its implications for data handling.
  • Strong ethics and sound judgment when handling sensitive information.
  • Strong ethical foundation and integrity, understanding the responsibility of handling sensitive information and setting team standards.
  • Collaborative approach to security governance, with a track record of embedding security seamlessly into development and operations workflows.

Skills

  • DSPM
  • DLP
  • Data Classification
  • Encryption
  • Access Governance
  • Automation
  • Scripting
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud Data Security
  • Object Storage Security
  • GDPR
  • Security-as-Code

Experience Level

  • Lead

About the Company

  • Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online delivery platform focused on empowering everyday convenience.
  • Our tech platform connects millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery, and convenience partners globally.
  • Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
  • Our culture is fun, fast-paced, and supportive, emphasizing movement, growth, helping one another succeed, and celebrating wins.
  • We are building a customer-first culture to stay ahead of the competition.

Equal Opportunity

  • No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com.
  • We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.