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Security & Resilience Consultant
Nationwide
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
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Nationwide is the world’s largest building society, and it is an exciting time
to join us. We are looking for a Security and Resilience Consultant to join our
Security Consultancy team within the Security & Resilience function.
Our mission is to work with colleagues to make sure services, money and data are
always available and secure. In this role, you will help business and change
teams deliver secure, resilient and compliant services across a range of
technology changes and transformation programmes.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your
best.
This is a 6 month secondment opportunity.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding
relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues
together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to
home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and
to feel connected.
For this role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value
time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will
be a regular requirement to attend our Swindon or London site approximately once
per quarter. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet
our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your
working time if part-time, in the office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office,
this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to
regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application
is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this
works.
Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change,
as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this
recruitment process.
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a
temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an
application.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What you’ll be doing
As a Security and Resilience Consultant, you will be accountable for ensuring
that services and change initiatives in your aligned business areas are
delivered in a secure, resilient and compliant way.
You will work closely with business, change and delivery teams, supporting
everything from small technology changes to major transformation programmes. You
will help implement Security & Resilience strategies and policies in a positive,
pragmatic way that enables colleagues to achieve their business objectives.
In this role, you will assess the impact of change initiatives and issue
appropriate security and resilience requirements to support compliance with our
policies and standards. You will conduct risk assessments, recommend suitable
controls to keep services and systems within enterprise risk appetite, and
advise on how security and resilience control requirements should be implemented
so designs achieve the right outcome and remain operationally viable. You will
also support change initiatives in navigating central security and resilience
services, including monitoring, penetration testing and access management, and
assure that control requirements are met throughout the project lifecycle,
working with the Security Requirement Assurance team where needed. As the
initial point of contact for security and resilience questions, challenges and
escalations across your aligned business areas, you will help teams resolve
issues pragmatically and effectively.
You will build strong relationships across multiple areas, working
collaboratively and proactively to ensure Security & Resilience is embedded
effectively in projects and programmes.
About you
As a Security and Resilience Consultant, you will bring strong knowledge of IT
security, information security, operational resilience, data privacy, risk and
controls. As a minimum,
you will have:
• Experience in a security consultancy role or a related discipline, such as
security governance, risk and control, or security operations
• A relevant professional qualification, or be working towards a certification
such as CISSP
• A developed understanding of risk and control methodologies, including
practical experience of risk assessment
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards, frameworks and good practice, such
as ISO, NIST, COBIT or COSO
• Sound judgement, decision-making and creative problem-solving skills
• The ability to understand and assess the security and resilience elements of
technical designs and constructively challenge to deliver better business and
security and resilience outcomes
• The ability to communicate complex risks and issues to technical and
non-technical stakeholders to influence critical business decisions
Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we
work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to
display, in every role:
• Feel what customers feel
• We step into our customers’ shoes, using their
feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs,
so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight
• We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think –
we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives
to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better
• We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status
quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal
development
• Get it done
• We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are
decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer
outcomes
You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours
resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.
QUALIFICATIONS
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of
employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
* 25 days holiday, pro rata
• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for
retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the
event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have
a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see
customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and
put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their
lives.
If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful
impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.
At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued.
Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives
to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work
for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.
We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.
What to do next
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to
attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date
to let you know the outcome of your application.
Keeping your data and personal information confidential is important to us. To
find out more about how we use and process your data, please read our Privacy
policy [https://nationwide-jobs.co.uk/privacy].
If you want to find out more
about using AI in our recruitment process, please
read more here [https://nationwide-jobs.co.uk/help-and-support].
Disability Confident
We’re not just guided by data, we’re driven by the real experiences of our
people. We’re a Disability Confident Level 3 Leader, the highest level.
That’s why we’re constantly evolving our policies and practices to make sure
everyone feels genuinely supported, valued, and empowered to champion inclusion.
Whatever your needs, we’re here to support you. If you need any additional
support throughout your application journey, email our team at Recruitment
Support [Recruitment.Support@nationwide-jobs.co.uk].
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The hiring manager for this role is Seven Brash, and the main recruitment
contact is Anoop Gosai.
Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title
on our internal systems will be S & R Consultant.