freetrade - Director of Security & Privacy

• Set strategy and long-term vision across security, privacy, and IT • Report to and advise senior leadership on risk, security, and privacy posture • Represent security and privacy in company decisions, influencing direction on risk • Build cross-functional relationships with Risk, People, Legal, and other departments • Foster strategic partnerships with IG Group security leadership to drive global consistency • Drive and govern the secure adoption of AI, ensuring alignment with GDPR and FCA regulatory expectations • Grow the team and hire new talented team members • Own the application security and cloud security programs, embedding security across the SDLC (shift-left) • Lead Incident Detection & Response, ensuring 24/7 monitoring and alerting coverage • Oversee corporate security and DLP controls to manage insider threat • Manage relationships with auditors and support audits regularly • Govern secure adoption of AI, including native integrations and MCP • Drive a culture of security awareness and embedding security by design principles across Freetrade • Ensure UK/EU GDPR compliance as the company scales • Act as first line of defense on GDPR across vendor review, onboarding, and engineering/data changes • Report regularly to senior leadership on privacy posture • Handle DSRs from users and employees, and liaise with regulators when required • Govern privacy-by-design adoption of AI • Own corporate IT and workplace technology across London and Budapest • Ensure secure site and remote connectivity (network, VPN/ZTNA) across both office sites • Ensure smooth management for the full employee technology lifecycle: onboarding, offboarding, and role changes, including hardware provisioning and access provisioning/deprovisioning • Own identity and access management: SSO, directory services, access reviews, and joiner-mover-leaver processes • Own corporate infrastructure, hardware fleet, and software tooling (procurement, licensing, lifecycle management)