Lead Engineer

Overview

In this Product Owner role, you will shape the Secrets Management engineering portfolio, focusing on secure, scalable access controls using technologies like HashiCorp Vault. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define a practical, risk-aware roadmap that improves resilience and service quality. You’ll lead change initiatives and support audits, ensuring compliant, reliable IT services. This is a chance to influence security tooling in a large financial organisation and work with cross-functional teams to deliver tangible impact.

Pay / Benefits

• private healthcare for UK employees
• enhanced maternity and adoption pay
• support on return to work
• contributory pension scheme with generous employer contribution
• tailored professional development opportunities
• competitive pay and benefits package

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a clear, actionable roadmap for Secrets Management services in collaboration with stakeholders
• Lead major changes with risk assessment, change management, and CAB representation
• Improve service health, resilience and adoption of new technologies and processes
• Support risk management, audits, and documentation of controls and evidence
• Own designated IT services, driving continuous improvement and ITGC compliance
• Collaborate with PAM vendors and delivery teams to deliver service enhancements
• Coordinate out-of-hours activity with planning and sustainable practices

Key requirements

• Three+ years in PAM or Secrets Management within a large organisation
• Strong hands-on knowledge of PAM and Secrets Management tools (Delinea, HashiCorp Vault preferred; CyberArk valuable)
• Experience in service ownership, crisis management, and delivering changes with minimal disruption
• Experience leading cross-team initiatives (team lead, Scrum Master, project manager or similar)
• Experience supporting internal/external audits and providing evidence
• Proactive, well-organised, able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative, relationship-building with stakeholders and open communication
• Engineering or development background in PAM space
• Exposure to AI, DevOps automation, and cloud services; interest in security UX
• Experience in a large enterprise, ideally financial services
• Curious, adaptable mindset with willingness to learn new technologies
• Strong interpersonal, communication and report-writing skills
• Ability to collaborate across countries, cultures and time zones
• Commitment to teamwork, knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement
• collaboration and relationship-building
• clear communication
• problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Secrets Management
• HashiCorp Vault

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