Senior Security Engineering Manager

In this role, you will lead a global security engineering team to embed robust security across a high-scale fintech platform. You’ll bridge architecture and hands-on security work, partnering with software and platform leaders to harden systems and secure the software lifecycle. You’ll drive SSDLC, threat modelling, and AI-enabled security workflows in a regulated environment. This is an impact-driving position at a fast-growing company shaping global financial operations.

• Lead and mentor a global team of security engineers, defining career paths and fostering technical excellence
• Define high-level security architecture for existing and greenfield projects
• Embed security requirements into roadmaps and sprint cycles with Software/Platform leadership
• Remain hands-on in architecture reviews and critical security decisions
• Provide data-backed security posture metrics to executives
• Lead SSDLC strategy and integrate automated security testing into CI/CD
• Institutionalise threat modelling across product teams
• Design guardrails and secure frameworks for agentic software and AI workflows
• Oversee end-to-end vulnerability management including triage, remediation SLAs, and board reporting
• Direct IAM architecture across multi-clouds and microservices, enforcing least privilege and PAM
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to set security guardrails on AWS and GCP
• Support audits and close compliance gaps through engineering implementations

• 8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or security engineering
• 3+ years of direct people management experience
• Strong background in building security controls at scale in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes
• Hands-on security expertise with secure coding, DevSecOps, threat modelling, and federated identity protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML)
• Ability to translate business risk into prioritized engineering work
• Proven track record delivering multi-quarter technical initiatives
• Experience in regulated financial services or fintech security domains
• Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks
• Excellent English communication and ability to lead distributed teams

• leadership
• clear communication
• stakeholder management
• AWS and/or GCP cloud security
• Kubernetes security
• SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD