Back to jobs

Security Architecture and Risk Lead

We’re very proud of our achievements:

In July, we secured a $200M investment led by General Atlantic to help revolutionise women’s health, and became the first purely digital consumer women’s health app to achieve unicorn status! 🦄

We’ve had 380M+ downloads, have almost 70M monthly users, are #1 by installs in the iOS Health category, hit 4.9 stars on the App Store (3M+ reviews), are backed by 9 VCs, had a 40% revenue increase last year, and topped a valuation of $1B.

We’re a growing, ambitious HealthTech business building the essential digital health partner of tomorrow to empower women, girls, and people who menstruate with the knowledge and support they need to stay well and live better.

Our cycle, ovulation and pregnancy tracking, educational content and anonymised community platform have been trusted for years by millions to help them feel more in control of their health every day.

Now, we’re harnessing the power of data analytics and AI to build a smarter future, one where we all know our bodies better, with an aim to become the essential health partner to women worldwide.

The Job

Partnering with security colleagues and business stakeholders, in this role you will aid Flo to design and implement friction free security solutions and controls that enable us to build, grow and deliver a trusted, secure platform, for the millions of users choosing Flo’s world leading women’s health app.

The Security Architecture and Risk Lead will partner with the business, to design secure systems environments, and embed security controls that mitigate risks within engineering and wider business processes, and third party solutions being implemented.

You will lead the security risk management domain, working with the Security Risk and Controls Manager, you will collaborate with stakeholders to understand context, and support the business to identify, understand and manage security risks, underpinning well informed risk and value based prioritization decisions. You will ensure controls are designed to reduce friction and enable Flo to work in a fast, safe and secure way.

Your Experience

Must have:

  • An information security engineer / architect with at least 10 years experience working across security domains (including Security Risk Management, and/or Security Management, and Security Architecture domains).
  • Strong command of (Secure) Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) best practices, including: security requirements, threat modelling, security testing, application security review, and securing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Sound understanding of cloud security best practices and DevSecOps methodologies. 
  • Experience in identifying and analyzing security risks and working knowledge of leading security risk management methodologies.
  • Strong management experience, including excellent influencing and communications skills.

Nice to have:

  • Relevant security industry certification or academic qualification (e.g. MSc Information Security, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)).
  • Experience in supporting security audits, including certification processes. 
  • Knowledge of a variety of security control frameworks.

What you'll be doing

You'll be responsible for:

  • Developing security patterns and standards.
  • Working with stakeholders to establish security tooling and capability requirements and ensure security tools align with short and longer-term goals.
  • Working with relevant stakeholders to continue to evolve Flo’s security risk management framework and processes, to ensure a transparent, practical and pragmatic approach to manage risk is taken, and is embedded consistently within processes across the business.
  • Ensuring that security risk management processes and the consideration of security risks support business planning and the effective prioritization of security initiatives.
  • Performing security assessments of third party solutions,  making actionable recommendations that enable the business to work with vendors and adopt third-party solutions in a secure manner.
  • Developing and implementing a software risk analysis framework to actively manage residual product security risks.
  • Supporting ISPMS monitoring programmes, including internal security audits, technical compliance checks and control maturity assessments.
  • Working with the wider security team to continually review, develop and rollout security training and awareness programme materials and campaigns. 
  • Supporting and advising business stakeholders in relation to security issues.
  • Advising and coaching other team members to aid their technical and team development.
  • Pro-actively investigating and maintaining a good knowledge of the cyber technology landscape and best practice to identify improvements.

You'll be targeted on:

  • Establish and embedding security patterns and standards.
  • Reduce security risks.  
  • Drive up engagement with business stakeholders, including business process and asset owners. 
  • Provide practical subject matter expertise and support.
  • Be a proactive team player that delivers on assigned targets, with a positive and collaborative approach.

The salary range for this role starts from £100,000 per year.   #LI-Hybrid #LI-LM12

Ranges may vary depending on your skills, competencies and experience.

Reward

People perform better when they’re happy, paid well, looked after and supported. 

On top of competitive salaries, Flo's employees have access to:

  • A flexible working environment with the opportunity to come into the office and work from home
  • Company equity grants through Flo’s Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)
  • Paid holiday and sick leave 
  • Fully paid female health and sick leave, in addition to holiday and regular sick leave
  • Workations - an opportunity to work abroad for two months a year
  • Six months paid maternity leave, and one months paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents
  • Career growth, progression, and learning development resources
  • Annual salary reviews
  • Unlimited free premium Flo subscriptions
  • A whole host of other benefits (health/pension/social schemes)

 

Our Culture

We’re problem solvers, we’re adaptable, we’re empathy driven and results led. 

People here like working in a fast-paced, multi-national, multi-cultural and ever changing environment. Everyone has an impact on a powerful mission, and is happy to roll their sleeves up to ideate solutions and put them in place. Being part of a  growing business means that sometimes it's not easy and we work hard, but our mission is always at the forefront of what we do. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The strength of our workforce is in the diverse backgrounds of our employees, and Flo is committed to applying its equal opportunities policy at all stages of recruitment and selection. This means recruitment and selection of talent into Flo Health companies is only based on individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Shortlisting, interviewing, and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, ancestry, age, veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, trade union membership, or any other protected characteristics.

By applying for the above role, you confirm that you have reviewed our privacy notice for job applicants: https://flo.health/privacy-policy-for-job-applicants 

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf


Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Flo Health’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.