Delivery Lead - Cyber Security
Posted 1 day ago by RedRock Resourcing
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary: The Delivery Lead - Cyber Security role involves coordinating technical activities with strategic cyber objectives for a large financial services organization undergoing a cyber security transformation. The position requires an experienced leader to translate strategic initiatives into actionable deliverables while managing dependencies and removing blockers to ensure effective delivery. The successful candidate will leverage their technical knowledge to enhance delivery outcomes and maintain clarity across teams. This role is critical in improving the pace and predictability of cyber program delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate strategic cyber initiatives including IAM, DLP, and control gap remediation into clear deliverables and prioritised work packages.
- Manage dependencies across Cyber, IT, and Risk teams, ensuring sequencing and handoffs are optimised for delivery flow.
- Identify and remove delivery blockers in real time, escalating effectively where required.
- Maintain momentum and clarity across delivery teams, ensuring priorities and next steps are always well understood.
- Apply sufficient technical and cyber knowledge to challenge plans, refine the delivery approach, and improve outcomes.
Key Skills:
- Proven background in Technical Delivery leadership, ideally with a strong understanding of cyber-related programmes.
- Comfortable operating across multiple teams and driving execution without formal authority.
- Outcome-focused with a preference for hands-on technical delivery.
- Experience in fast-moving, technically complex environments within regulated or risk-sensitive organisations.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Cardiff
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Delivery Lead - Cyber Security (Contract) | Cardiff
We're supporting a large financial services organisation on their cyber security transformation, and they are looking for an experienced and technical Delivery Lead to coordinate between technical activity and strategic cyber objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Translate strategic cyber initiatives including IAM, DLP, and control gap remediation into clear deliverables and prioritised work packages.
- Manage dependencies across Cyber, IT, and Risk teams, ensuring sequencing and handoffs are optimised for delivery flow.
- Identify and remove delivery blockers in real time, escalating effectively where required.
- Maintain momentum and clarity across delivery teams, ensuring priorities and next steps are always well understood.
- Apply sufficient technical and cyber knowledge to challenge plans, refine the delivery approach, and improve outcomes.
Requirements:
- Proven background in Technical Delivery leadership, ideally with a strong understanding of cyber-related programmes.
- Comfortable operating across multiple teams and driving execution without formal authority.
- Outcome-focused with a preference for hands-on technical delivery.
- Experience in fast-moving, technically complex environments within regulated or risk-sensitive organisations.
This is an embedded engagement where the successful candidate will play a central role in improving delivery pace and predictability, reducing coordination overhead for technical SMEs, and ensuring the organisation's cyber programmes deliver against their strategic objectives.