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ISSCA Assurance Professional

Job Req ID:  47649
Posting Date:  5 Jun 2025
Function:  Cyber Security
Unit:  Networks
Location: 

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive with Great Benefits

Why this job matters

This is a multi-skilled assurance role and is integral to ensuring that BT meets its certification aims and mitigating risk, contributes value add to BT with ISO 27001 worth approx. 1 billion and PSN, TSA & TBEST is multi-million.

 

This role is hybrid (3 days in office) & can be based in one of the following locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchetser

What you’ll be doing

  • Audit/Assessments - To gain assurance that these are being planned and performed for the assigned business processes by the certification’s anniversary.
  • Security Assurance – provides evidence based security assurance on the effectiveness of BT’s cyber defenses at Line 2, and drives improvements to BT’s cyber security risk posture in relation to specific schemes & certifications (TSA, ISO 27001,  TBEST, & PSN).
  • Issues and Escalations - The role holder may identify issues that requires further action(s) to ensure that the correct steps are taken to protect and preserve our various certifications. To be formally tracked and if not resolved within agreed timescales the role holder must escalate the matter immediately.
  • Driving Change - To ensure that any changes in our various certification standards are incorporated within these business processes ‘in good time’ to maintain compliance.
  • Communications - Acts as a communications bridge between the BT compliance governance organisation and ‘working level’ within allocated first line business processes.
  • Security Forums - Running relevant forums and governance relating to the enactment of certification & assurance schemes where required.
  • Risk Management - Identifying, collating, and communicating and monitoring risk management plans that affect certification.
  • Sharing best practice and approaches with peers and first line teams to drive consistency and adherence to certification requirements
  • Champion for driving compliance for BT BAU security and certification schemes. 
  • Maintaining high productive and effective working relationships with first line teams in the CFUs, product and capability owners.
  • Working as part of an effective matrix team pan-CFU to enact components of certification.
  • Facilitating dialogue with external parties, certifications board’s, regulators etc.

Skills Required for the Role

  • Story-telling - The ability to articulate the requirement for our various security schemes & certifications (TSA, ISO 27001, TBEST, & PSN)
  • Business acumen - Understanding the value TSA, ISO 27001, TBEST, & PSN compliance brings to BT.
  • Willingness to learn new Security frameworks to support multi-skilled Assurance team
  • Skill Sharing - The ability to knowledge share with other members within our organisation. (Mandatory)
  • Membership of a pertinent Security / Technology related professional body: ISO27001 (Mandatory) IISP (Preferred)

Experience Required for the Role

  • Experience of supporting security compliance in a business environment. (Mandatory)
  • Practical experience in one of IT Security, Physical Security, Systems Development, Systems Support / Operation (Mandatory)
  • Understanding of security frameworks, policies & processes. (Mandatory)
  • Demonstrable experience in BT processes for the management of operational and technology changes (Preferred)
  • Demonstrable experience of team working in both hierarchical and matrix teams. (Mandatory)

Benefits

  • On target 10% on target bonus​
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%​
  • From January 2025, equal family leave:  receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.​
  • Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.​
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service​
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues​
  • 2 weeks carer’s leave ​
  • World-class training and development opportunities​
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.​

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. 
 
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband.  Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. 
 
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come.  This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.  
 
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented.  BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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