Motability Operations Ltd
Cyber Security Technical Manager
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About The Role
Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, the Cyber Security Technical Manager is responsible for leading several specialist cyber security teams and providing technical leadership across the Cyber Security function. The role ensures security engineering, secure development, and security assurance capabilities continue to evolve in line with business needs and emerging threats.
In addition, the role provides senior security consultancy across programmes and projects, supporting secure design, defining security requirements, providing technical assurance to enable informed risk-based decisions.
Working closely with the CISO and other security leaders, the Cyber Security Technical Manager contributes to the day-to-day operation of the Cyber Security function, acting as a technical partner to Technology teams, representing Cyber Security across technical governance forums, chairing the Cyber Security Technical Working Group, and enabling informed, risk-based decisions that support secure delivery at pace.
About You
You are an experienced cyber security professional with a strong technical background and a passion for helping teams deliver secure outcomes. You enjoy working across a broad range of technologies and initiatives, providing pragmatic, risk-based advice that enables the business to move quickly without compromising security.
- You will have a proven track record of influencing the design and implementation of secure software development practices, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure.
- You are equally comfortable providing hands-on technical guidance, reviewing complex security designs, and helping stakeholders navigate challenging security decisions.
- You are an excellent communicator who can build trusted relationships with engineers, architects, project teams, and senior stakeholders.
- You enjoy collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and creating consistency in security approaches across multiple teams.
As a leader, you empower those around you. You provide direction and coaching to technical specialists and team leaders, helping them develop while fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality delivery.
Above all, you are a self-starter who takes ownership, exercises sound judgement, and enjoys solving complex technical problems. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a pragmatic and customer-focused approach to cyber security.
Minimum criteria
- Demonstrable experience in a senior cyber security role, with responsibility for leading technical teams and influencing security outcomes across a complex technology environment.
- Experience designing, implementing, and assuring security across cloud services, infrastructure, and software development.
- Demonstrable experience of modern cyber security practices, including secure software development, cloud security, security engineering, and security testing.
- Experience providing security consultancy to technology programmes, including secure design, technical risk assessment, and security assurance.
- Proven ability to build effective relationships with technical and business stakeholders, influencing decisions through pragmatic, risk-based advice.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing technical teams and/or team leaders.
- Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, CISM, or equivalent are desirable.
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Who You’ll Be Working With
The Cyber Security team exists to help Motability Operations deliver technology securely, protecting our customers, colleagues, and business while enabling innovation and change.
We work collaboratively across Technology and the wider organisation, providing pragmatic, risk-based advice that enables teams to make informed security decisions without unnecessarily slowing delivery. Our focus is on embedding security into everything we do, from the earliest stages of design through to implementation, testing, and ongoing operation.
This role leads several specialist cyber security teams responsible for security engineering, application security, security testing, and technical security assurance. Working alongside colleagues responsible for Security Operations, Identity Governance, Security Architecture, and Service Resilience, you’ll help ensure a consistent and effective approach to cyber security across the organisation.
We value curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We encourage our people to challenge constructively, share knowledge, and continually develop both themselves and those around them.
About The Company
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance, and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
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Our Values Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do. They Represent Ambition, And We Look For Our People To Live And Breathe Them Every Day
- We find solutions
- We drive change
- We care
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
- Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
- 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
- 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
- Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
- 1 day for volunteering
- Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
- Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
- Funded health screening for over 50s
- Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships, and season ticket loans
- Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
- Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP, and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
- Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
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