Product Security Leader - 12 Months

Global FinTech / Payments

Bank, London - 3 Days Onsite pw

A Global fintech leader is seeking a Product Security Leader to embed security throughout the product lifecycle of new and existing products, partnering closely with engineering, product, and compliance teams. We're looking for an SME who can lead security for a suite of products both existing and new, driving best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement security policies and tooling across design, development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Lead threat modelling for new and existing applications.
• Manage and prioritise the product vulnerability backlog, including key remediation metrics.
• Coordinate bug bounty findings and drive timely fixes.
• Conduct root cause analysis for incidents and systemic issues.
• Lead or support incident response, including facilitating tabletop exercises.
• Understand code (infra-as-code, config, automation, service mesh, API integrations)
• Review code for security flaws, patterns, and misconfigurations
• Evaluate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, understanding the underlying code

What You’ll Bring

• Expertise in vulnerability management, threat modelling, security architecture, and secure SDLC.
• Strong background in incident response, root cause analysis, and bug bounty programs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in third‑party risk, security assessments, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong CI/CD security tooling including SAST, DAST, and SCA, XSS, SQLi, IDOR

If you’re driven to strengthen product security at scale within a high‑impact environment, we’d welcome your application.

This role is planned to start on a 12 month contract, £550-750pd inside Ir35 and convert to a £120k + permanent role after this.(Transition to perm is dependant on performance, but already approved budget)