Principal Information Security Consultant (Day rate Contract)

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.

We also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you.

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The opportunity

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Information Security Consultant to join our Information Security team. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on strengthening secure design and threat modelling practices across our embedded security consulting function and supporting a large portfolio of change initiatives across the bank.

The portfolio is characterised by large-scale, multi-year, multi-phase transformation programmes. You will work closely with a team of embedded security consultants who are distributed across a wide range of workstreams, helping them navigate complex technical challenges, providing specialist expertise, and supporting the development of secure solutions at scale.

This role requires deep technical knowledge, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work across a diverse range of technologies, architectures, and delivery models. You will be a key source of expertise for security consultants, engineers, architects, and product teams, helping them address complex security challenges and make informed security decisions throughout the change lifecycle.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on expertise, collaboration and capability building. You will provide specialist support on threat modelling, secure solution design and complex security challenges across the change portfolio. Working closely with embedded security consultants, architects and engineers, you will help teams understand security considerations, evaluate design options and develop pragmatic solutions that enable delivery while managing security risks appropriately.

You will be expected to bring strong expertise across multiple information security domains, including application security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and threat modelling. You will help build capability across the consulting team by sharing knowledge, developing approaches and patterns, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.

If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders, and helping teams build secure technology solutions, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Technical Leadership - You will act as a senior technical specialist for the embedded security consulting function, providing guidance and expertise on complex security challenges across the change portfolio. You will help consultants and delivery teams navigate technically challenging situations and support the development of pragmatic security solutions.
• Threat Modelling - You will support and facilitate threat modelling activities across a diverse portfolio of projects and programmes. You will help consultants and technology teams identify threats, understand attack scenarios, evaluate mitigating controls, and incorporate security thinking into solution design from the earliest stages of delivery.
• Capability Building - You will help develop the technical capability of the embedded security consulting community through coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and the creation of reusable approaches, frameworks, and guidance materials. You will champion security best practices and help elevate technical security expertise across the team.
• Problem Solving - You will support consultants and delivery teams in addressing complex information security challenges. This may include application security concerns, cloud security considerations, identity and access management issues, data protection requirements, emerging technologies, and technical risk mitigation strategies.
• Subject Matter Expertise - You will maintain deep knowledge across relevant information security domains, industry standards, emerging threats, and security technologies. You will contribute specialist expertise to strategic initiatives, help shape approaches to threat modelling and secure design, and support the continual evolution of the bank's security capability.

What we’re looking for

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• E xtensive experience in one or more information security disciplines and a strong understanding of how security principles are applied within complex technology environments.
• Significant experience facilitating threat modelling activities and helping teams identify practical mitigations to security threats.
• Experience working with architects and engineers to develop secure technical designs across cloud, application, infrastructure, and data environments
• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and can balance security requirements with business and delivery objectives.
• A strong communicator, able to explain complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You enjoy coaching, mentoring, and sharing knowledge with colleagues to help build capability across a wider community of security consultants.
• You are comfortable operating across multiple projects simultaneously and can rapidly understand new technologies, architectures, and business domains.
• You have a collaborative mindset and enjoy working alongside engineering, architecture, product, and delivery teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• You have a strong understanding of information security risk management and how security risks are identified, articulated, and managed within a regulated financial services environment.
• You are aware of your own knowledge gaps and proactively seek specialist input when required.
• You are passionate about helping technology teams deliver secure solutions and embedding security considerations early in the design and delivery lifecycle.

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.