Director, Security Engineering & Operations

WHO ARE WE

Cognism is the leading provider of European B2B data and sales intelligence. Ambitious businesses of every size use our platform to discover, connect, and engage with qualified decision-makers faster and close more deals. Headquartered in London with global offices, Cognism’s contact data and contextual signals are trusted by thousands of revenue teams to eliminate the guesswork from prospecting.

The Role

At Cognism, the security of our data, our systems and our clients’ systems is a business priority. Information security is embedded in the way we work, and we are driving a culture where the fastest path is the securest path. As the function continues to mature, we are now hiring for a Director of Security Engineering & Operations to report directly to our CISO. In this role you will own and drive the technical security strategy for Cognism’s web and data products, as well as our corporate environment. You will be responsible for designing a security programme that protects our most sensitive assets: our data, our data fusion engine and the logic that powers it. As a trusted partner to our R&D leadership team you will help to define and drive the long-term security engineering maturity roadmap, driving alignment across engineering leaders, product leadership and IT. If you’re energised by the idea of shaping measurable security processes and controls, from the ground up, aligning engineering around secure-by-design principles, and elevating operational excellence, then this is the role for you. This is a rare opportunity to define the technical security vision for a dataintensive product at a moment where AI, scale, and engineering velocity are creating new and exciting challenges. You will shape how Cognism builds securely for the next decade.

What success looks like

Within 12 months, you will have:

• Delivered a unified security engineering roadmap aligned with engineering leadership.
• Matured secure SDLC adoption across Web and Data engineering.
• Improved MTTD/MTTR through stronger SOC operations.
• Invested in and mentored a team with clear ownership, KPIs, and engineering trust.
• Reduced engineering friction by creating pragmatic, developerfriendly guardrails

What You'll Own

Security Strategy & Engineering Integration

• Define and own Cognism's technical security strategy that seeks to embed security-by-design within our web and data products, our data fusion engine and pipelines, and our corporate landscape. You will drive a strategy that is pragmatic, risk-ranked, and aligned to engineering velocity.
• Work directly with product and technology leadership as a strategic partner. You will drive ownership and accountability, clearly agreeing ways of working between your team and product and technology teams.
• Set and direct a secure SDLC strategy that engineers engage with, coaching and mentoring our applic