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About the Role
This senior technical security role focuses on product and platform security, setting standards and collaborating with engineers to ensure secure development practices. The position involves owning secure development standards, conducting threat modeling, and guiding cloud security, identity management, vulnerability management, and data protection strategies. A key aspect is enhancing the security knowledge of engineering and product teams to enable informed, in-team decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Provide practical, hands-on security advice to engineers throughout the development lifecycle.
- Own secure development and coding standards, and coordinate penetration testing.
- Conduct threat modeling on high-risk work and train teams to perform their own.
- Set security standards for cloud environments, including configuration, access, and encryption.
- Determine vulnerability severity and remediation priorities.
- Design strategies for identity and privileged access management.
- Lead data security initiatives, including classification, data separation, and DLP tooling.
- Apply security judgment to assessments of high-risk suppliers.
Requirements
- Significant experience in a senior or principal security architecture or application security role, preferably in a fast-growing cloud-based software company.
- Strong hands-on cloud security background, including secure configuration, access, identity, encryption, and guardrails.
- Solid understanding of secure software development, threat modeling, secure coding, and common application security risks.
- Practical experience in vulnerability management, identity and privileged access, data security, and software supply-chain practices.
- A pragmatic approach that facilitates rapid engineering progress.
- Clear communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to explore and pragmatically apply AI to enhance product security.
- Experience in InsurTech, FinTech, or other regulated industries is a plus.
- Experience building security functions or practices from an early stage is a plus.
- Experience integrating security into modern engineering delivery is a plus.
- Experience with software serving many customers from shared infrastructure and data separation is a plus.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, AWS security) are beneficial but not required.
- Experience training and coaching engineers on security is a plus.
- Willingness to undergo background checks, including criminal record, credit history, previous employer references, and academic qualifications.
Skills
- Cloud Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Vulnerability Management
- Data Protection
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development Standards
- Secure Coding
- Penetration Testing Coordination
- Cloud Configuration
- Encryption
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Tooling
- Supplier Risk Assessment
- AI in Security
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Principal
Education Level
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP or an AWS security qualification are beneficial, though we care more about what you can do than what you hold.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection insurance
- Life insurance of 4 * base salary
- On-site gym and shower facilities
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Team social events and company parties
- Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees
- Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform
- Company stock options managed through Ledgy
- Milestone Birthday Bonus
- Life Events leave policy
- Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays
- Home office and equipment allowance
- Company MacBook
- Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams
- YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines
- Tree planting through Ecologi Action partnership
- High-quality coffee machine
About the Company
- Artificial is building the next generation of technology for the specialty (re)insurance market.
- Their mission is to transform how brokers and carriers operate by removing operational barriers and enabling smarter, faster decision-making.
- They use modern technology to automate repetitive tasks and structure complex processes for leading brokers and insurers.
- The company has raised $45M (£33M) in Series B funding from lead investor CommerzVentures, Move Capital, and existing shareholders.
- This investment supports growth, innovation, and maintaining Artificial as a top choice for digital trading in the insurance sector.
Equal Opportunity
- Proud to be an equal opportunities employer committed to building a diverse team.
- Accommodations available during the hiring process upon request.
- Encourages sharing of preferred pronouns.
- Encourages applications even if not all requirements are met, valuing potential and raw talent.