Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers. Job Purpose Reporting to the UK Chief Information Officer, Canada Life UK, this is a leadership role within the UK Technology function This new role will provide full oversight, coordination, and direction of first line risk management and cyber capabilities within UK Technology. This will include all aspects of the risk management framework (IMMMR), risk governance, enhancing risk awareness and culture, and technology resilience (DR, BCM, crisis Management and emergency response). The role will also work for the European Technology CISO to develop the Information Security strategy for the organisation and support UK Technology in the implementation of effective controls. The role requires close engagement with the UK Technology leadership team, the Office of the CIO (OCIO) Risk & Security team as well as relevant 2nd and 3rd Line Risk teams to ensure full line of sight across all risk related activities, managing priorities, and ensuring delivery to meet the obligations and responsibilities set out in the parent group (Lifeco) Technology Risk Management Policy and associated policies and standards. Manage relevant attestations and compliance reporting for Canada Life UK including the Annual Regulatory Compliance Management Statement. The role will involve significant senior relationship and stakeholder management including engagement with LifeCo, senior executives across both the UK and broader European segment and presentations to executive and board forums. What you'll do Lead the UK IT Risk and Security Team, by building a deep capability in security and risk management, in order to enable a step change in IT Risk Management across CLUK. Continuously improve our IT and Security risk management approach and culture across CLUK, by bringing lessons from the broader IT industry and security teams across Europe; driving a culture of experimentation & innovation; and identifying emerging risks; to ensure we always understand our risk position, tolerance and are always able to plan next steps to reduce risk. Improve risk & risk management practices across the broader UK IT teams through setting challenging and context appropriate goals/OKRs for individual teams to reduce risk; providing education and support to teams; to maintain our overall risk position as in tolerance and ensure management of risk is viewed as everyone's job. Sponsor for key risk related projects/programmes, by identifying the case for change and costs/benefits of proceeding; working closely with programme/project managers to lead the delivery; identifying and mitigating delivery risks; ensuring that expected benefits are successfully delivered; in order to make sure that these projects represent successful investments in CLUK, and that they achieve meaningful improvements in our risk management and residual risk positions. Act as an interface between the UK technology risk community and the broader European technology risk management framework, by representing the UK in European frameworks/forums etc; advocating for improvements to these frameworks, particularly when those improvements contribute to UK risk reduction; bringing technology, frameworks, and lessons learnt from the broader European community to the UK; to drive value in the form of maximum risk reduction from our broader European risk management community. Proactively contribute to the CLUK Technology and European Risk Leadership teams, by supporting the implementation of relevant team strategies; acting for the good of the overall team; supporting and leading team communications both within the risk and broader IT teams; advocating for the team as a whole; driving improvements in operational management processes across teams; to ensure that the CLUK IT Risk and Security represents and is recognised as a force for good across both CLUK and European Technology teams. Desired knowledge, Skills and Experience An experienced Information Technology leader with a diverse range of knowledge (including Cloud infrastructure) and capabilities in a large organization across multiple geographies Deep knowledge of risk management frameworks and their application within a Technology environment SME knowledge and experience of the design, implementation and operation of Information Security controls and procedures Experience of Technology resiliency including DR, BCM, crisis management and emergency response would be beneficial An understanding of trends and regulatory focus across European regulators, particularly operational resilience and cloud infrastructure is beneficial The ability to partner with and relationship manage senior business executives and technology leaders to connect technology risk and business goals to achieve successful outcomes Experience of how to develop risk/cyber maturity and risk/cyber awareness and culture, with experience working in first line risk or second line of defense desirable Strong leadership and influencing skills and competencies refined through experience operating at a senior level Ability to lead experienced practitioners with a diverse range of knowledge and capabilities to drive business success The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results Listening and being able to translate the commercial and business strategies so they connect with the technology risk strategy is also imperative to success The ability to use a combination of logic, analysis, experience, wisdom to solve complex, difficult problems in a timely and innovative way Qualifications Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a technology-related field, or equivalent work or education-related experience. Benefits of working at Canada Life We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development. How we work at Canada Life Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop. Diversity and inclusion Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we're making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus. "At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all." Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.