We are looking to connect with experienced Cyber Security & Operational Resilience Specialists for our talent pool as we anticipate future project demand across the UK Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech and broader regulated sectors.

This is not an active role. We are proactively building a network of independent consultants and contractors with specialist cyber-security, resilience and risk-management expertise so we can respond quickly as new client projects come to market.

We are particularly interested in professionals who can support cyber-transformation, resilience programmes, cloud-security initiatives, regulatory compliance and enterprise-risk management engagements.

What you may support:

• Design and implement cyber-security strategies, frameworks and controls.
• Support operational-resilience programmes and regulatory readiness initiatives.
• Conduct cyber-risk assessments and control reviews.
• Define and implement security operating models and governance frameworks.
• Lead security architecture and secure-by-design initiatives.
• Support cloud-security and infrastructure-modernisation programmes.
• Develop incident-response, business-continuity and disaster-recovery capabilities.
• Implement identity and access management solutions.
• Support third-party risk-management and vendor-assurance activities.
• Deliver security awareness and cyber-risk culture initiatives.
• Coordinate security testing, vulnerability management and remediation activities.
• Work closely with technology, risk, compliance, operations and executive stakeholders.

What we are looking for:

• Cyber Security Consultant
• Security Architect
• Cyber Risk Specialist
• Information Security Manager
• Operational Resilience Consultant
• IAM Specialist
• Security Engineer
• Security Programme Manager
• Technology Risk Consultant
• Governance, Risk & Compliance Consultant

Strong experience in one or more of:

• Cyber-security strategy.
• Security architecture.
• Operational resilience.
• Cloud security.
• Identity and access management.
• Cyber-risk management.
• Security operations.
• Vulnerability management.
• Third-party risk management.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Regulatory compliance and governance.
• Security transformation programmes.

Experience supporting complex transformation initiatives within financial services, insurance, fintech, healthcare or other regulated industries.

Strong stakeholder-management, problem-solving and communication capabilities.

Experience working across multidisciplinary business, technology and risk teams.

Independent consulting, contracting or project-based experience is advantageous.

Preferred background:

We are particularly interested in professionals who have worked on:

• Operational-resilience programmes within regulated environments.
• Enterprise cyber-security transformation initiatives.
• Cloud migration and security-enhancement programmes.
• Cyber-risk and technology-risk frameworks.
• Identity and access-management implementations.
• Security operations centre (SOC) transformation initiatives.
• Regulatory compliance and risk-management programmes.
• Third-party risk-management and supplier-assurance reviews.
• Incident-response and cyber-recovery planning.
• Security governance and control-framework implementations.
• Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare or critical-infrastructure environments.

Why join our talent pool:

You will be well positioned to hear about future project opportunities with leading Financial Services organisations, insurers, fintechs, healthcare providers, technology companies and specialist consulting firms across the UK.

We anticipate continued demand for professionals who combine deep cyber-security expertise with practical transformation and risk-management experience. The UK cyber-security workforce continues to grow, cyber job postings remain on an upward trend, and skills shortages persist across security, resilience and risk disciplines.