Lead Security Risk Assurance Manager
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£56,500
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2440 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £56,500, and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2135 (Cyber security professionals, Cyber security risk focus could place it in cyber security professionals) or SOC 1137 (Information technology directors, Lead/manager title and security governance could suggest IT director). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
Lead Security Risk Assurance Manager
Your choice of Blackpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pontypridd, Sheffield.
You will also need to travel to other DWP locations, with periodic overnight stays required.
£57,946 salary, plus £7000 allowance, and 28.97% employer pension contributions
About your role
Each year DWP is responsible for delivering approximately £280 billion in benefits and pensions, with over eight hundred physical locations and around 1000 commercial suppliers. DWP holds substantial personal data and manages several critical digital systems and key elements of the Government’s critical national infrastructure.
Enterprise Security & Risk Management (ESRM) supports the secure delivery of DWP business, empowering the Department to operate within its security risk appetite, prioritise security improvement activities and maximise return on security investment.
As a Lead Security Risk Assurance Manager, you'll lead the assessment and assurance of DWP's most significant security risks, providing trusted, evidence-based advice to senior leaders, including Director General and Executive Team level stakeholders.
You'll produce enterprise-level risk assessments and assurance reports that help decision-makers understand threats, assess the effectiveness of controls, and make informed choices about risk.
You'll analyse information from multiple sources, identify connections and impacts across services, and translate complex security issues into clear, practical recommendations.
You'll lead security assurance activities across DWP assets and services, providing an independent view of the department's security posture, highlighting good practice, identifying areas for improvement, and helping ensure DWP delivers secure, resilient and effective services for millions of citizens.
We're looking for someone who can see the bigger picture, build credibility with senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and provide clear analysis of how security risks could affect service delivery, resilience, people, data, assets and public trust.
We would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate your skills and experience across all the following essential criteria:
- Experience providing risk assessment or assurance or decision support within large, complex environments involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and distributed accountabilities, alongside a strong understanding of security or risk principles.
- Transferable experience (such as threat analysis, operational risk, resilience, or intelligence) is equally valuable. No mandatory qualifications are required
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability - build credibility with senior leaders, gain buy-in across organisational boundaries, and communicate complex security risk issues in a clear and compelling way.
- Demonstrate curiosity and professional scepticism – using questioning to test assumptions, understand the evidence to assure effectiveness of controls and develop a strong understanding of risk and business impact.
- Ability to understand and communicate business impact - translating security, technical or operational issues into clear consequences for service delivery, resilience, staff safety or organisational performance
- Leadership experience - able to guide and quality‑assure the work of others, support change, and contribute to improving or professionalising a team or function
- Exceptional analytical skills - able to assess complex, and interconnected security or operational problems, identify dependencies and develop evidence based assurance opinions in ambiguous environments clearly and concisely.
DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
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Where this offer sits in the market
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2440 going rate of £56,500. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.