Senior Technical Application Specialist (Compliance Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Application Specialist (Compliance Engineering): Building and evolving regulatory security monitoring and compliance capabilities with an accent on automated control validation and security telemetry. Focus on designing scalable data-driven monitoring solutions and integrating complex data sources across cloud and on-premise environments.

Location: Hybrid working; must spend at least two days per week (40%) at one of the office sites in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, or Manchester

Salary: £72,702 - £88,858

Company

hirify.global is a leading UK financial institution transforming its security and compliance engineering through data, automation, and modern architectures.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve regulatory security monitoring and compliance capabilities to ensure controls are scalable and verifiable.
• Lead the development of security telemetry and monitoring solutions, including Database Activity Monitoring.
• Architect and optimize alerting use cases by integrating diverse data sources across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Drive continuous compliance practices by embedding automated control validation and evidencing into engineering workflows.
• Promote modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automation, testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members within the Security Data & AI Lab.

Requirements

• Strong experience in security monitoring, telemetry, or compliance engineering.
• Proven ability to design and deliver data-driven monitoring solutions, including pipelines and ingestion frameworks.
• Deep understanding of security logging and regulatory control environments (e.g., SOX, SWIFT CSP, audit logging).
• Experience working with modern cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and distributed architectures.
• Strong structured and analytical approach to solving complex technical challenges.
• Must be based in or able to work from Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, or Manchester

Nice to have

• Strong programming or scripting capability using Python, SQL, or similar.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with observability platforms and large-scale data analytics frameworks.
• Understanding of distributed systems or event-driven architectures.
• Interest in or experience with AI and automation in security and compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working options for better work-life balance.
• Comprehensive wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.