Senior Director, Security Engineering

Company Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Director of Security Engineering (all genders) to join the Security Engineering team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

As the Senior Director of Security Engineering, your role will involve supporting the global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in executing a multi-year transformative security strategy across the entire organization. The mission of your team is to enhance security standards across all engineering disciplines and utilize engineering as a multiplier  force to scale  security.

Your responsibilities include developing, advocating, and implementing the Delivery Hero security strategy, focusing on empowering stakeholders through automation, self-service, and infrastructure infrastructure as code. You will collaborate with stakeholders to establish trusting and  mutually accountable partnerships , emphasizing transparency and data-driven decisions. Your leadership will inspire your teams and stakeholders, breaking silos and promoting collaboration.

As a thought leader for the security teams under your purview, you will ensure that their respective  roadmaps align with the overarching security mission. You will be tasked with attracting, retaining, and coaching  talent to build high-performing teams capable of achieving our objectives.

This role presents a unique opportunity for transformation, requiring a combination of passion, vision, long-term strategic planning, and decisiveness in navigating ambiguities. You will work closely with the security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, advocating for the integration of risk and security control management practices into engineering processes.

Your mission:

• Establish and promote a long-term security engineering strategy that is embedded within, and enables, the broader Tech team

• Build, develop and coach security engineering teams across the Delivery Hero group

• Closely collaborate with the GRC teams, integrate risk and security control management within engineering principles

• Actas a security engineering thought leader, author security engineering policies and standards

• Be a strong and influential stakeholder manager

Qualifications

Your heroic skills:

• Inspirational leadership of large security engineering teams.

• Deep understanding and experience of security engineering principles

• Experience in broad range of security disciplines including  product, infrastructure security, IAM, SOC

• Extensive experience in delivering industry standards and meeting security related regulation in engineering fast moving organizations

•  Passionate and relentless about building a new  security program. 

Nice to have:

• Experience with PCI

• Software engineering background

• Experience presenting up to board and executive management levels

Additional Information

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.