Principal Cyber Security Consultant
Location: National*
Closing Date: 16th March 2025
Interviews: w/c 31st March 2025
Grade: Grade 7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £61,201 - £78,225 (which may include an allowance of up to £17,024)
National: £56,532 - £73,450 (which may include an allowance of up to £16,918)
Working pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 3473
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Principal Cyber Security Consultant here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Platforms and Architecture Cyber team.
This role aligns against Security Architect from the Government Digital and Data Framework
The Platforms and Architecture Cyber team sits at the heart of Justice Digital, working with products and services that help deliver justice securely. These products and services can be from anywhere in the MoJ, from applying for legal aid to prison education, we work across borders to support teams with security expertise.
The Platforms & Architecture team is made up of technical and security experts responsible for shaping, assuring and improving the digital services provided in Justice Digital. We combine our skills to work as a single multidisciplinary team, leveraging knowledge & expertise and valuing the inputs of everyone.
For someone keen to work where they will be in demand and respected for their problem solving, security understanding and communication skills, the Platforms & Architecture cyber team is an ideal place to work.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
This role will provide proactive hands-on security leadership in the scoping, development and ongoing improvement of Justice Digital products and services. These can be a mix of complex transformational digital services to targeted products, which address a specific need, and everything in between.
You’ll be expected to develop a deep understanding of MoJ security policy and strategic initiatives and ensure that new technology is built to support them, ensuring that cyber security risks are identified and eliminated or mitigated by sound security practices.
As someone who can work under broad direction, you will also take an active security lead on designated projects, providing technical cyber security oversight and guidance to both service owners and developer colleagues, ensuring strong collaboration and the unification of security across Justice Digital.
Using your security expertise and experience, you’ll support teams in achieving their goals, acting as an enabler to support delivery of MoJ products and services. We are here to help teams navigate the broad, complex field of cyber security, and we are looking for individuals who understand the bigger picture and see the success of other teams as their own.
The ideal person will:
Support the design, development, improvement and evolution of a wide ranging portfolio of products and services in Justice Digital. This may include working with suppliers (and both internal and external stakeholders) from project initiation through to delivery.
Triage security requests with a positive mindset, anticipating needs and challenges.
Provide technical advice, guidance and support in a meaningful way that enables business outcomes.
Be able to articulate and communicate cyber risks to senior stakeholders, including at board level.
Challenge the status quo and work with the Central MOJ Information Security Team to develop and evolve MoJ Policy and risk practices based on organisational need.
Take a key role in the promotion of strategic cyber security initiatives, influencing and aligning stakeholders to the MoJs security aims and objectives.
Act as a key point of contact for product teams, facilitating queries and providing sound security advice, utilising industry best practices, recognised frameworks and government policy as the foundation for your decision making.
Be proactive in sharing knowledge, mentoring junior members of the team and documenting processes and techniques.
Be responsible for the line management of Civil Servants and Contractors.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Benefits
37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
5 days volunteering paid leave.
Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.