SC cleared Security Delivery Manager

About this role

About the Job

In a Nutshell

🛡️ Role: Security Delivery Manager

📄 Employment Type: Permanent or Inside IR35 Daily rate contract

📍 Location: Primarily remote, with occasional travel to client sites as required

🔒 Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

📅 Start Date: Immediate

About Amber Labs

The digital transformation partner for highly regulated industries.

Our teams deliver digital transformation for organisations operating in complex, highly regulated environments. From securing national borders to supporting critical defence operations, we deliver secure AI, data, cloud and software solutions across high-stakes programmes.

What You'll Be Doing

We're looking for an experienced Security Delivery Manager to join a major Central Government transformation programme.

This role will sit at the heart of a large, complex delivery environment, coordinating security activities across multiple suppliers, delivery teams and stakeholders. You'll take ownership of security delivery, ensuring security requirements are translated into practical delivery outcomes and embedded throughout the programme lifecycle.

We're specifically looking for someone who has led security workstreams and been accountable for security outcomes, rather than someone who has solely worked alongside or coordinated with security teams. You'll play a key role in balancing programme pace, governance and risk while ensuring secure-by-design principles are maintained throughout delivery.

You'll be responsible for

• Leading the delivery of security workstreams across a large-scale transformation programme
• Owning security delivery outcomes, ensuring security requirements are embedded across all phases of delivery
• Managing complex dependencies across technology, business change, security assurance, testing and deployment activities
• Developing and maintaining delivery plans, RAID logs, progress reporting and governance artefacts
• Coordinating security activities across design teams, system integrators, third-party suppliers and internal delivery teams
• Identifying, managing and escalating risks, issues and blockers to ensure successful delivery outcomes
• Supporting security governance processes and providing clear reporting to programme leadership
• Driving alignment across multiple workstreams and stakeholders with competing priorities
• Supporting security readiness, assurance, controls, access management and compliance activities
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, technical teams and delivery partners

What We're Looking For

You will need

• Proven experience leading security workstreams and owning security delivery within complex organisations
• Demonstrable accountability for security outcomes across large-scale transformation programmes
• Strong delivery management experience, including planning, dependency management, RAID management and governance reporting
• Experience coordinating security activities across multidisciplinary delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience working within large-scale transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and secure-by-design delivery approaches
• Knowledge of identity and access management, data protection, compliance and operational resilience
• Experience managing security risks, issues, dependencies and assurance activities through to resolution
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
• Experience reporting to programme leadership and supporting decision-making through clear analysis and recommendations
• Ability to balance delivery pace, governance requirements and security outcomes in fast-moving environments
• Active SC Clearance

Desirable Experience

• Oracle Cloud security or Oracle-enabled transformation programmes
• Security design, assurance, controls and access management within large enterprise environments
• Relevant certifications such as PRINCE2, Agile, ITIL, CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001, Oracle Cloud or equivalent

Please note: This is not a general Delivery Manager position. Candidates must be able to demonstrate direct ownership and leadership of security delivery, security assurance or security-focused workstreams. Experience limited to liaising with security teams or coordinating security stakeholders without overall accountability for security outcomes will not be sufficient.

What's In It For You

We believe benefits should be practical: things that genuinely support your day-to-day, give you flexibility and help you keep developing.

Here are a few of our perks

• 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office
• Personal training budget to support your professional development
• Perkbox membership, with discounts across retail, travel, dining and wellness
• Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service
• Regular team socials
• Referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires
• Your choice of PC or Mac

How We Work

We've worked hard to build a team of people who are experts at what they do. Because of that, we'll trust you to get on with your job and give you the space to do it well. But you'll always have plenty of support around you whenever you need it, whether that's to sense-check an approach, tackle a tricky client challenge or simply bounce ideas around.

We keep our structure flat and our processes straightforward. If you have a good idea, you'll be encouraged to run with it, and if something could be done better, we'll encourage you to say so. Ultimately, we work with people who take pride in their work, support their team and want to leave things better than they found them.

What Happens Next?

Once you've applied, our in-house Talent team will review your application and, if it looks like there could be a good fit, they'll be in touch.

For most of our roles, there are two interview stages: one focusing on your experience and delivery expertise, and another focusing on how you communicate, collaborate and approach your work.

A Human Approach to Hiring

We use AI responsibly, in our client projects and internally. When it comes to hiring, though, there are always real people behind the process. Decisions throughout the recruitment process, from CV review and progressing to interview through to making an offer, are made by our Talent team.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amber Labs is an equal opportunities employer, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to do their best work, regardless of background, identity or experience.

If there's anything we can do to make the recruitment process more accessible or comfortable for you, just let our Talent team know and we'll be happy to help.

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