Senior IT Security Officer

It’s an exciting time to join the Security team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers, and streamline our business processes. With a consultative approach and a variety of exciting change projects on the horizon, we support the business as Subject Matter Experts whilst driving the outcome of secure solutions through assessing risk and building pragmatic solutions to mitigate those risks.

Working in the Security team, the Senior Information Security Consultant will be reporting into the Head of Security Strategy and Transformation and will gain fantastic exposure across the business as well as IT. You will need strong IT Security knowledge and be able to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Liaise with UK COO, AXA Health, and Insurance project teams to manage the security portions of strategic projects, working within the project teams to achieve goals on time and on budget.
2. Deliver assigned UK Security projects, enhancing our controls and closing new risks, on time and on budget.
3. Provide consultancy within the UK Security team on the security aspects of business goals and plans outside CTO.
4. Build secure solutions which can be measured, for example on Coverage, Quantity, and Quality metrics, and can be moved into a supportable and maintainable Business as Usual state.
5. Assist the rest of UK Security producing risk assessments of Group and 3rd party tools and platforms, as required.
6. Provide technical consultancy on 3rd party risk for specific solutions. Act as subject matter expert to the business and to other members of the Security team as required.
7. Proactively investigate new threats to the business and propose solutions to address them.

What you’ll bring:

1. Proven experience working in an Information Security role previously implementing information security controls across a range of technologies, e.g., Security Architect, or Security Project Lead.
2. A strong customer focus to ensure internal stakeholder needs are met.
3. Experience of cloud technologies.
4. Information Security risk management processes and best practice.
5. Disciplined and organised mind-set with a good attention to detail.
6. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate and resolve conflict.
7. Excellent time management skills, including the ability to manage a demanding and variable workload with tight deadlines.
8. Good reasoning skills and the ability to clearly identify key issues.
9. CISSP, CISM or other equivalent foundational security qualifications or experience.
10. CEH, OSCP, GIAC or other penetration testing security qualifications or experience.
11. SABSA, SANS or other technical architecture qualifications.
12. SAFE, Scrum, or other Agile methodology experience.
13. Data Protection, Risk, Legal or HR qualifications or experience.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

1. Competitive annual salary of up to £75,000 dependent on experience.
2. Annual company & performance-based bonus.
3. Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions).
4. Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary).
5. 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
6. Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave.

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Who we are:

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.