Cyber Security Lead - Payments

Salary: £60,000 to £65,000 Basic, plus fantastic benefits
Location: North Greenwich, London / Remote Working

About Us:
TfL developed and operates a world-leading contactless payments system which manages over 4 million customer journeys per day and generates over £3B worth of revenue per year. TFL also operates the Oyster payment system which manages more than 1 million journeys a day.
With such critical payments systems such as these, TfL’s cyber security professionals play a crucial and ever-increasing role in protecting these systems that make it all work.
In this role not only will you be responsible for managing the cyber security risks of these high-profile payment systems, you will also be part of one of the biggest cyber security teams in the UK.

About The Role
Your role will be to provide specialist cyber security advice and guidance to enable the Head of Customer Payments to effectively manage the cyber security risks over TfL’s customer payment systems.
It is therefore essential that you have experience managing cyber security risks specifically with payments systems. This will include working knowledge and experience with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards and Data Protection legislation (GDPR).
As the cyber security lead for the Payments team, you will have relevant skills and experience working in cyber security using best practices (e.g., ISO27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework, NIS Regulations) and/or experience working with a variety of IT technologies and be able to apply these to real world situations.
Your experience will enable you to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate minimise TfL’s cyber security risk exposure and enable TfL to meet its regulatory obligations.

Desirable Qualifications:
Degree level education or equivalent experience, ideally in science, engineering, technology, computing, cyber security or a related field,
Qualifications and certifications from information security bodies such as: GIAC, ISC2, ISACA, ISA, CompTIA.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 17th October 2023 at 23.59

Security Clearance
This role requires a minimum of BPSS security clearance, however the required level of clearance may change. Should an offer of employment be made, continued employment is subject to you obtaining the required level of clearance and maintaining this throughout your employment.

Additional Information
Please apply supplying both your CV and a covering letter preferably in “.docx” format. Both documents should be A4, in Arial 12 font, and a maximum of 2 pages per document.

If you are shortlisted you may be invited to take part in a Video interview. We endeavour to give candidates as much notice as possible however some interviews/ assessments will be organised at short notice and will require a degree of flexibility. We reserve the right to close the application window early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We'll see what we can do.
We understand a confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. So please don’t hesitate to apply if you think you have what it takes even if you feel you don’t meet all the criteria. We’d love to hear from you.