Advanced Specialist, Security Engineer

at Pearson, London, United Kingdom

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J ob Title : Advanced Specialist, Security Engineer

About the Role:

The BU Security Engineering Lead is a security-skilled technology professional who

reports to the BU/function's Designated Risk Owner (DRO), with a dotted-line

alignment to central Security to maintain consistency with enterprise security strategy,

standards and priorities. The role is accountable for improving the BU/function's

security outcomes and achieving agreed security objectives and metrics, working

closely with GRC, Security Architecture and other central Security capabilities.

The role combines security expertise, technical leadership, engineering thinking, data-

driven problem solving and strong business understanding. The Security Engineering

Lead is part of the BU technology organisation, identifying security weaknesses,

understanding their root causes and delivering practical solutions that measurably

reduce security risk.

The role is accountable for improving the BU/function's security outcomes and

achieving agreed security objectives and metrics.

What You’ll Do

Own improvement in BU security outcomes

• Take accountability for achieving agreed security objectives, targets and metrics

for the BU/function.

• Establish a clear understanding of the BU's current security performance, key

exposures and areas of greatest risk.

• Use security data, trends and analysis to identify priorities and opportunities for

improvement.

• Develop and execute plans to improve security performance and reduce

measurable risk.

DCL2 - Internal Use Only • Track progress against agreed objectives and intervene where performance is

not improving.

• Identify systemic issues and drive sustainable improvements rather than

repeatedly addressing individual findings.

Drive remediation of security risk

Work directly with technology teams to improve performance against key security

outcomes, including areas such as:

• Vulnerability and patch management

• End-of-life/end-of-support technology

• Privileged access management and reviews

• Security control implementation

• Security configuration and hardening

• Security remediation backlogs

• Recurring security findings

• Other BU-specific security priorities