Security Engineering Manager

Join Us in Ensuring a Secure Future!

Holland & Barrett is on the lookout for a talented Application Security Lead to develop and implement our application security strategy. If you're an experienced leader with a passion for security and compliance, we want you to be part of our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy Development: Design, implement, and maintain the organization's application security strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.
• Collaboration: Work closely with tech leaders to establish shared security goals, managing embedded security engineers across various development teams, including web, mobile, and physical store applications.
• Hands-On Leadership: Act as a hands-on leader, balancing team management with active participation in engineering tasks alongside your team.
• Secure SLDC: Establish a secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that empowers development teams to deliver high-quality, secure applications efficiently.
• Standards Development: Own the creation and maintenance of tailored security standards and guidelines, supporting reusable resources for different development teams.
• Policy Enforcement: Establish and enforce security policies, standards, and guidelines to protect the company's applications, data, and systems while promoting a culture of security by design.

Key Requirements:

Essential:

• 7+ years of experience leading application security engineers, with 3+ years in software development.
• Deep understanding of application security concepts, including secure coding practices, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and access control mechanisms.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and API Security (authentication and authorization).
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, GoLang, Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• A strategic, data-driven leader with a track record of designing and managing successful application security programs.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as SCRUM, alongside strong project management skills to handle multiple security projects.

Desired:

• Independent, proactive, and detail-oriented, maintaining high security standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.

Why Holland & Barrett?

At Holland & Barrett, we are committed to promoting health and well-being while ensuring the integrity of our applications and customer data. Join our team and contribute to a culture of security excellence in a forward-thinking company.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're excited about leading application security initiatives and driving best practices, apply now! We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

What we offer:

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so weoffer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).