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Cyber Security Architect
Senior Security Architect/Risk Owner – Cyber Security & Transformation
The Organisation: Insurance for the Audacious
At Hiscox, we don’t just insure against risk—we help bold ambitions become reality. Whether it’s safeguarding kidnap-and-ransom payouts, cyber exposure for high-net-worth clients, or marine cargo shipments, we navigate high-stakes risks with innovation.
This is more than an insurance business—it’s a force for economic possibility. Our $200m transformation programme is rewriting how we underwrite risk while embedding security at every level. From agentic AI to distributed data challenges, we don’t just react to threats—we build resilience into the future.
As a security leader here, you’ll craft solutions that enable growth, not impede it.
The Role
You’ll straddle two critical imperatives:
- Day-to-day security operations: Designing, implementing, and maturing defences against evolving threats.
- Transformation security ownership: Ensuring new products, tech stacks, and processes are secure by design—not bolted on later.
What You’ll Do
- Take end-to-end ownership of a breadth-heavy security portfolio, juggling multiple projects across cloud, data, and cyber—balancing innovation with risk mitigation.
- Translate business needs (from underwriters to data scientists) into practical, scalable security requirements.
- Escalate issues, act as a trusted advisor to execs, and clarify security trade-offs for stakeholders—whether it’s the board, regulators (FCA, Lloyd’s, NYDFS, DORA), or underwriters.
- Drive automation-first thinking—writing scripts, implementing workflows (you don’t need to be a dev, but hands-on experience matters).
- Understand and influence security at scale: AI developability, supply chain vulnerabilities, large-language model risks.
- Champion a culture where security enables enablement—protecting the business while removing friction for innovation.
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What’s in It for You
A Bright Future
- Join one of the world’s most exciting transformation programmes, with record profits and global ambition.
- Work with remarkable people—a culture built on integrity, courage, and collaboration.
- Hybrid working: set your own demand for office/remote balance (your choice).
Top-Tier Benefits
- Competitive salary (commensurate with experience and market).
- 25 days annual leave + 2 “Hiscox days” per year.
- 4-week paid sabbatical every 5 years.
- Contributory pension and private medical cover for the whole family.
- Bonus structure aligned with company performance.
- Continuous growth: Learning budgets, mentorship, and unlimited career opportunities in a global company.
Being You
Hiscox is relentlessly curious—weaknesses can be fixed, but expertise and drive are everything. We’re building a team that’s bold, technically diverse, and restless for progress.
If you’ve spent your career at the intersection of cloud security, financial regulation, data science, and business transformation, this is where the craftsmanship belongs.
What We Need from You
We’re looking for your most ambitious, hands-on accomplishments—not theoretical knowledge or water-cooler tales.
Core Experience
✔ You’ve led security architecture in cloud-first environments—preferably heavily Azure/GCP, with AWS exposure. Depth matters where it counts: migration, compliance, zero-trust.
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✔ You know financial services regulation inside out: FCA, Lloyd’s, NYDFS (bonus: DORA technical nuances). IoT, cyber, and general insurance—some of them may say your name.
✔ Security innovation: You’ve built solutions from scratch, not just configured commercial tools. Direct experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, CCPA/GDPR is gold.
✔ Democracy in design: You’ve mediated between business goals, threat vectors, and engineering pragmatism—executing on solutions that do smart, not just protect.
✔ Automation mindset: You evaluate, prototype, and apply efficient remediations. (Familiarity with Python, Terraform, or Dev-sec-Ops frameworks gets extra attention.)
✔ AI/data security: Your radar is tuned to hyperscale modelling risks, supply chain leakage, and large-language tooling—whether LLM guardrails, or data mesh security.
✔ Regulatory liaison: Most firms bury security trends reports under bureaucracy—you’ve translated the FCA’s NetZero plan for teams and MBBs.
Who’s Got It Together
We’re hunting for 3–5 “yes” answers to the above (seriously—self-assess). If it’s 1–2, you’ll learn fast here. Now go proof it with us.
Come Build the Next 125 Years
Our legacy? Every wheel of history we’ve spun—from steamships to the Bitcoin era—has been safer and smarter because of Hiscox.
If you want to be a partners in progress, join us.
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