Cyber Assurance Lead at Reed, Birmingham, £Negotiable Rate

• Contract Duration: 6 Months
• Location: Remote with ad hoc travel to London/Birmingham
• Job Type: Contract - Outside IR35

Join our leading digital transformation consultancy as a Cyber Assurance Lead! This role provides senior leadership across a live digital and cloud portfolio, owning security assurance strategy, prioritisation, and decision-making. It is crucial for ensuring security risk is managed and documented pragmatically across the organisation in a fast-paced digital environment.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Own and lead cross-project cyber security assurance across a complex multi-system digital portfolio.
• Act as the senior security decision-maker, providing clear risk-based recommendations and approvals.
• Prioritise assurance activity across multiple live projects and services.
• Challenge senior delivery, digital, and technical stakeholders constructively on risk, architecture, and control gaps.
• Ensure consistent assurance artefacts, risk registers, control mapping, and decisions are produced and maintained.
• Oversee and quality-assure the work of senior and mid-level security consultants.
• Support compliance and assurance activity in regulated/audited environments.
• Provide assurance input across cloud, SaaS, integration, and OT adjacent initiatives.
• Lead remediation activities arising from security reviews, ensuring actions are agreed, tracked, evidenced, and closed.
• Review and challenge security architecture decisions across cloud, SaaS, and integration-led services.
• Produce and present portfolio-level risk positions, security decision papers, and assurance updates to senior stakeholders.
• Drive consistency of assurance approaches, control assessments, and risk management practices across multiple projects and services.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Extensive experience leading security assurance and risk management across live digital environments.
• Strong background in cloud and SaaS environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with integration-heavy estates, APIs, and third-party platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging at CISO and senior leadership level.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset - able to balance pace with control.
• Ability to make and defend risk-based security decisions in complex delivery environments.
• Experience reviewing security architecture and cloud design decisions.
• Proven experience producing assurance artefacts, risk assessments, decision papers, and executive reporting.
• Experience supporting the remediation and closure of security findings, risks, and control gaps.

Desirable:

• Exposure to GovAssure or central government assurance models.
• Experience with OT, IoT, smart-building, or property technology environments.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Planon, or similar SaaS platforms.
• Experience operating within central government assurance frameworks, including GovAssure.
• Experience providing assurance across operational technology (OT), smart-building, and PropTech environments.

Additional Information:

• BPSS and active Security Clearance required.

To apply for this Cyber Assurance Lead position, please submit your CV and one of our RPS consultants will get in contact with you.