Job Introduction
Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.
We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.
Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.
We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.
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The opportunity
We are seeking a versatile and proactive Information Security Consultant to join Handelsbanken UK which is currently undergoing a major technology transformation programme. The successful candidate will be embedded within a technology delivery team, playing a critical role in ensuring that security is integrated seamlessly into change initiatives from inception through delivery.
The Bank operates an model where information security consultants are embedded into workstreams acting as the security lead for that delivery team. This is not a traditional advisory role — you will be actively participating in solving information security problems, working closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, and collaboratively solve security challenges and ensure the team can continue to deliver a pace.
This role will support the Efficiency and Automation workstream responsible for both agentic process automation, that streamlines business processes, and cutting-edge data, machine learning, and GenAI capabilities that power data-driven insights and solutions to solve real business challenges across the bank. You’ll use your expertise to support the delivery of secure RPA, data and machine learning pipelines that serve as the foundation for our AI initiatives across both on-premises and cloud platforms.
This is a unique opportunity to work on an exciting technology change programme, influencing the security posture of critical Bank systems while collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders. You’ll often operate independently of other security and privacy subject matter experts, so a broad and deep understanding of security and privacy domains is essential — from secure architecture and threat modelling to data protection and regulatory compliance
If you thrive on autonomy, love solving complex problems, and want to see the real-world impact of your work in a critical industry — this is the role for you.
Key responsibilities
- You will develop a deep knowledge of your workstreams technology stack and business outcomes allowing you to not only identify security risks but identify and propose practical solutions to the team. This role is all about helping teams deliver securely not just calling out risks.
- You will lead risk & control assessments using the Banks defined processes, covering supplier due diligence, privacy impact assessments and project security.
- You will support your workstream identify and articulate risks, steering them towards appropriate treatment plans, documenting mitigating controls and ensuring these are actions within agreed timeframes. You will operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to your line manager.
- You will provide specialist advice and interpretation of Information Security best practice and UK regulatory requirements to a range of different stakeholders as new products, processes and systems are developed. You will need to be aware of your own knowledge gaps and when & where to seek specialist input to solve a particular problem or query
- You will develop a deep knowledge of the Banks secure change processes and procedures, shepherding your workstream through various assessments and approval gates
- You will build deep, trust based relationships with key stakeholders within your delivery team such as developers, testers, product managers, delivery leads and tech leads. You will be an active member of the delivery team, attending daily stand-ups, PI planning sessions and working groups
What we’re looking for
Research (by Harvard University) shows that women are particularly likely to second guess themselves and not apply - so if you are worried you don't meet all the criteria, get in touch anyhow and let us do the worrying…
- Solid, practical and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non technical aspects)
- You don’t need to be a privacy expert but you will require a good understanding of core privacy concepts and how these apply to technology change initiatives
- Demonstrable experience of supporting technology change initiatives to deliver solutions securely
- Experience working in FS or other highly regulate industry
- Experience working in a intra-group outsourcing arrangement
- Experience working on large-scale technology transformation programmes
Why join Handelsbanken
We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind.
In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation
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