Principal Engineering Leader - Telecoms

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Key Information

Job title: Principal Engineering Leader – Telecoms 

Band: 4

Salary: circa £90,000 (depending on skills & experience)

Contract type: TfL

Reference: SF2271  

Location: Hybrid/ Endeavour Square, Stratford

Application closing date: Monday 6th October at 2359 

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements. 

Role Overview 

The role directs, leads and line manages the TfL Engineering Cyber Security team, overseeing and managing the cyber security activities in TfL Engineering, providing expert advice and guidance to programmes, sub-programmes, projects and risk owners in Capital Delivery on all matters of cyber and information security risk management. As a first line of defence capability, the team supports risk owners in ensuring that the organisation has appropriate and effective cyber security defensive capabilities in place to protect our operational technology systems.

The role will engage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and teams and provide support to regulatory activities and capital delivery projects, enhancing cyber security capabilities and undertaking activities to reduce cyber security risk. The role applies extensive expertise in the field of cyber security, providing authoritative technical leadership, interpreting technical strategy and company policy to satisfy business requirements. They will support the development and implementation of solutions, demonstrating a good understanding of the business operation and requirements when formulating solutions and recommendations and providing constructive challenge to deliver the right outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• Directing, leading and managing a team of cyber security engineers who are responsible for working with project teams ensuring projects implement cyber security in accordance with TfL policies, standards and guidelines as well as international standards and good practice.
• Supporting the development of appropriate management processes, to then implement these processes to ensure security requirements are continually updated and reflected in the system security solution designs. 
• Ensuring the cyber security risk management and assurance processes are established and implemented to provide continuous feedback to all stakeholders and to improve the security posture in projects.
• Ensuring that cyber security requirements are established, implemented, verified and validated and that cyber security risks are identified, managed and controlled throughout the project lifecycle, so that systems are acceptably secure at the point of delivery. Involved in reviewing and agreeing the cyber security requirements that result from the individual project risk assessments.
• Support the cyber security engineers, project engineers, assurance leads and other business and third party stakeholders in the creation, review and approval of cyber security assurance to support system acceptance.
• Represents TfL Engineering as a cyber security Subject Matter Expert. Be the cyber security primary point of contact, engaging where necessary with the likes of the TfL Cyber Security Team, Engineering Professional Heads, Department for Transport, TfL Cyber Security Steering and Working Groups and other applicable stakeholders.
• Support cyber security engineers in the creation and review of cyber security artefacts and deliverables.
• Make authoritative technical recommendations which have a high impact on organisational performance
• Ensuring the safety, functionality and compliance of high risk, newly implemented or altered assets, engineering processes, procedures or systems
• Specify technical competence requirements for the workforce to enable the assignment of the right capabilities

Essential Skills

• Relationship and stakeholder management, including excellent interpersonal and influencing skills. Relevant stakeholders may include all levels including senior executives.

• Highly effective verbal and written communications skills, particularly the ability to readily translate technical risks into business language.
• Ability to review and influence technology and engineering designs at a high level.
• Ability to analyse and recommend cyber security requirements and controls.
• Ability to lead a team across a varied portfolio of work.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills using a pragmatic approach.
• Maintaining a constructive approach to developing and mentoring team members.

 Essential Knowledge

• Has current knowledge and understanding of cyber security and information security practices, principles, tools and techniques.
• Qualifications and certifications from information security bodies such as: GIAC, ISC2, ISACA, ISA, CompTIA.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and Regulation such as: Data Protection Act (DPA), Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulation, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
• Knowledge of industry best practice and frameworks such as: ISO27001, IEC62443, NIST Cyber Security Framework, CIS Critical Security Controls.
• Knowledge in telecommunications and IP networking, network and computer system architecture, network infrastructure, enterprise-level cyber security technologies for use in complex environments.

Desirable Knowledge

• Degree level education or equivalent experience, ideally in science, engineering, technology, computing, cyber security or a related field.

Essential Experience

• Proven leadership experience in a multifaceted organisation specifically with stakeholder management at many levels
• Experience communicating, engaging and influencing a variety of junior and senior stakeholders
• Experience developing, coaching and mentoring team members.
• Experience engaging with major internal and external parties to achieve business objectives.
• Experience of working with engineering / operational technology, such as industrial control systems, particularly those related to safety critical / critical national infrastructure functions.
• Experience of applying security by design and security in operation.
• Experience providing cyber security advice and guidance.

Application Process 

Please apply using your CV and answering the screening questions. Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV.

PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images 

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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. 
 
Benefits  

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.