Headquartered in Barcelona, our client company is leading the digital transformation and innovation in elections worldwide. Built up over 20 years of research and protected by over 40 international patents, their solutions have been successfully used in over 30 countries across the globe, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa, India, and Australia.

Today the company is a subsidiary of an Ireland based international group, leader in identification solutions, customer communications and graphics services that employs 9000 employees around the world.

Role description

Reporting to the Chief Security Officer and SVP of Research & Security, the Director of Security oversees the Security and IT unit, defining, implementing and enforcing security protocols and processes at all levels of the organization, including physical, software, project management and other areas. The director of Security & IT will be also responsible of following up and monitoring the implementation of these security policies and processes at corporate level.

Will manage the Security and IT unit with a team of approx. 10 experts divided in two main areas: security and IT. Security team will be formed by security analyst experts on software and IT security, whose main objective is to define the security requirements of the company’s developments, ensure compliance with security standards and regulations, testing the security of the company solutions and monitoring the security status of the company and projects. IT team will be also responsible of the implementation, support and monitoring of the IT systems implemented at company and project level. The team will also participate in the research and innovation projects implemented by the Research & Innovation teams of the same department.

Key responsibilities

Establish the Security and IT strategy at a worldwide level for the company.

Lead the team of Security and IT unit of the Research & Security Department, directly reporting the CSO of the company and indirectly the company executive committee and Group CIO.

Guarantee the information security compliance (ISO 27001, GDPR, ENS…) from:

Their headquarters and all the branch offices.

Any information asset owned by the company Group.

Any software and technology delivered by the company.

Processes and activities from all employees and subcontractors.

Assess the security and IT architecture of every software developed, identifying rooms for improvement and action plans, establishing the strategy and guidelines for the team of Security & IT Analysts (i.e., define, maintain and follow-up the Secure-Software Development Life Cycle of the company).

Define, improve and follow-up the ISMS of the company and interact with the Security Directors of the companies of the company Group.

Risk management for any day-to-day activity.

Security training and security awareness as a Security Expert.

Advise Governments as an expert on Security and Electronic Voting technologies

Participate in tenders and marketing events as a subject matter expert on Security and Electronic Voting technologies

Lead the security audit processes implemented in the different projects.

Participate in the Technical Committee of the company.

Benefits & perks

Private health insurance.

Gym membership.

Free language classes.

Flexible compensation plan.

Flexible working hours.

Working from home policy (up to 3 days per week).

23 free paid days plus bank holidays.

Additional paid holiday on your birthday.

International working environment.