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This role offers broad technical scope across existing payment schemes, future service developments and security standards, with a clear focus on secure design, assurance and resilience.\nYou’ll work across the full lifecycle of payment services, helping ensure that security requirements, cryptographic controls and key management practices are defined, reviewed and maintained in a complex, regulated environment. If you’re looking for a role where deep technical knowledge is central to the work, this is a chance to support infrastructure that underpins payments used every day across the UK.\nAccountabilities\nReview payment infrastructure, service and technology changes to identify security risks, control gaps and required improvements.\nProvide security guidance during the design, development, implementation and operation of payment systems and services.\nAssess security architectures and design proposals against Pay.UK requirements, security principles and industry good practice.\nAdvise on cryptographic controls, authentication mechanisms, encryption standards, PKI and key lifecycle management.\nEvaluate cryptographic controls used by suppliers, service providers and participants where appropriate.\nContribute to security assessments, risk reviews and assurance activities for payment services and supporting technologies.\nDevelop and maintain security requirements, standards, guidance and related artefacts for payment systems and supporting services.\nMonitor emerging threats, vulnerabilities, technologies and regulatory developments relevant to payment security and cryptographic risk.\nQualifications, Skills and Experience\nDegree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.\nProfessional information security qualification such as CISSP, CISM, CISMP, CCSP or equivalent.\nExtensive experience in cyber or information security, including security architecture, risk assessment and security assurance.\nExtensive practical knowledge of cryptography, encryption technologies, authentication mechanisms, PKI, and key management practices.\nExperience designing, reviewing and assuring secure technology solutions in complex or highly regulated environments, and communicating security risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nUnderstanding of BACS and Faster Payments (FPS) schemes or similar.\nPay.UK Behaviours\nAt Pay.UK, our behaviours are central to who we are and how we operate. They bring our values to life, shape our culture, and guide how we make decisions, collaborate, and respond to challenges across the payments ecosystem. All interview processes will assess the following behaviours:\nListen to Find Win-Wins - Empathy, Listening and Understanding\nInfluence with Courage - Influence, Courage\nGo Horizontal First - Cross Boundary Collaboration\nTake Ownership - Self Development\nOpportunity Mindset - Initiative\nSimplify - Achievement Orientation\nIn addition, all leadership roles are expected to lead by example through the following behaviours:\nSet Direction - Strategic Planning, Team leadership\nHold Colleagues to Account - Accountability\nCoach & Grow Your Colleagues - Develop Others\nInclusivity\nAt Pay.UK, we value diversity and inclusivity. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups may hesitate to apply unless they meet all the requirements listed. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of how closely their skills and experience match the requirements. We are committed to supporting accessibility needs and creating a welcoming environment for all employees. Become part of our team and contribute to the creation of an inclusive work environment that values everyone's unique input.\nWho we are\nPay.UK is the recognised operator and standards body for the UK's interbank retail payment systems. We provide the infrastructure and services that millions of people and businesses rely on every day, including Bacs, Faster Payments and the Image Clearing System for cheques, the Current Account Switch Service and Confirmation of Payee. Together, these services help keep money moving safely, securely and reliably across the UK and play an important role in supporting the economy.\nIn 2025, the UK's retail payment systems processed more than 12.5 billion transactions worth over £11 trillion. 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As the ecosystem evolves, we are continuing to develop our capabilities in areas such as data and AI, enhancing operational insight and helping to build a modern, trusted payments ecosystem.\nLearn more about life at Pay.UK by hearing what employees have to say, click here to view videos.\nBenefits & additional information\n12% Non-contributory pension\nDiscretionary annual bonus\n30 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)\nPrivate medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, health cash plan, dental insurance, Bupa medicals etc\nEmployee assistance programme\nCycle to Work Scheme\nSeason ticket loan\nAnnual fitness subsidy of up to £500 per annum\nWorking from home policy - minimum 40% in the office (eg. 2 days in the office over a 5 day working week)\nPlease note:\nSome of our benefits are only available to colleagues after meeting the requirements of the probationary period\nPay.UK employee benefits are not available to contractors and are only available to permanent and fixed-term employees","description_format":"text","description_chars":6252,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Dental insurance","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Payment Processing & Gateways","Standards & Industry Bodies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T12:42:58Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-23T06:21:00+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":72,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.795,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:3","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wearepayuk-payment-security-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wearepayuk-payment-security-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T00:07:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":168,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1786729},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1786729"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwearepayuk-payment-security-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwearepayuk-payment-security-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwearepayuk-payment-security-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wearepayuk-payment-security-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwearepayuk-payment-security-engineer"}]}