Lead Data Security Engineer

Lead Data Security Engineer

2026-09-16T00:00:00

Location: Epping, Essex, GB, CM16 4

Employment Type: Full Time

Application Deadline: 2026-10-14T18:00:34.197

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery, and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

JET's Information Security organisation protects a technology-led, cloud-native platform serving millions of customers across multiple markets. As a Lead Data Security Engineer, you'll define the technical "North Star" for security at JET, shaping how we protect the experiences of millions of customers worldwide. This is a pivotal individual contributor, leadership role where you'll translate complex business risks into a scalable, proactive defense strategy that enables growth without compromise.

You'll work at the intersection of technology and business strategy, partnering with leaders to ensure our security framework supports our mission: connecting customers with the food and services they love. Your vision will lead our security evolution, your execution will deliver enterprise-wide resilience, and your approach will care deeply about enabling teams to innovate safely. Together with engineering, DNA, and business stakeholders, you'll drive a culture where security isn't a hurdle, it's a competitive advantage that helps us win together.

Key components of the position

• Work directly inside data teams as an embedded security partner to understand their building processes, data handling, and actual risk profiles.
• Build secure solutions alongside data teams through collaborative engineering instead of just handing down rigid security requirements.
• Identify recurring issue patterns and collaborate with central security engineering to fix systemic vulnerabilities.
• Act as a two-way bridge - connecting security standards with real-world data practices, aligning both teams' insights and needs.
• Design, build, and maintain automated workflows to detect and fix data security risks at scale.
• Deploy continuous monitoring, automated guardrails, and auto-remediation scripts across cloud environments.
• Engineer CI/CD gates and infrastructure-as-code baselines to stop data leaks before code deployment.
• Support the rollout of encryption, masking, data discovery, classification, and access governance.
• Secure LLM and AI pipelines by guarding against prompt injection and tracking data lineage.
• Prioritize Wiz and DSPM findings by context to implement fixes, while documenting tools to enable a "Security-as-Code" mindset.

What will you bring to the team?

• Deep, hands-on technical skills in data security. You've built and run controls like DSPM, DLP, data classification, encryption, or access governance, not just designed them on paper.
• Strong automation and scripting skills. You're comfortable translating security goals into working code, remediation scripts, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience embedding automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines, working shoulder to shoulder with developers and data engineers without slowing them down.
• Practical cloud data security experience, including object storage security.
• A solid understanding of GDPR and what it means for how data gets handled.
• Strong ethics and sound judgement when handling sensitive information.
• Strong ethical foundation and integrity, understanding the responsibility of handling sensitive information and setting team standards.
• Collaborative approach to security governance, with a track record of embedding security seamlessly into development and operations workflows.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable - our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

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