Director of IT Security (m/f/d)

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Internal Execution: Take ownership of our internal security operations. You will lead, mentor, and steer our internal security experts in a results-oriented manner, ensuring the continuity and excellence of daily security operations.
• Internal Coordination & Sparring: Act as the central, consultative liaison across the company. You will lead cross-departmental coordination of security topics, define clear security requirements for our Infrastructure and engineering teams, and develop pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• 1st Line Security Operations: Oversee the technical execution performed by your teams. Your duties will include actively participating in incident analysis, threat mitigation, and ensuring robust monitoring is in place.
• Project Management: Drive and contribute to broader projects. If you enjoy organizing and structuring security-related agendas across the IT landscape, there is plenty of impactful work to be done!
• Cloud Security Oversight: Leverage your deep understanding of AWS Cloud Infrastructure and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model to guide your teams in maintaining a secure, robust, and compliant cloud environment.
• Your Profile
• Extensive Professional Experience: 10+ years of overall experience within the Cybersecurity or Information Security space, combined with at least 3+ years of proven experience working directly as an IT Security Manager or in a similar leadership capacity.
• Broad Cybersecurity Background: The world of security is vast, and your holistic expertise counts. You have broad experience across domains such as IT Governance/GRC, ISMS, ISO 27001, BCM, NIS 2, DORA, Vulnerability Management, SOC/SIEM, IAM/PAM, Penetration Testing, Network Security, or DevSecOps.
• Generalist Leadership Mindset: A comprehensive overview and a fundamental understanding of security technologies, industry standards, and their potential business impact are highly valued. You know how to guide specialists without getting lost in the weeds of individual security tools.
• Team Management Experience: Proven track record in leading, structuring, and motivating internal technical teams in a fast-paced, mission-critical IT environment.
• Technical Acumen: Really good understanding and practical working knowledge of AWS Cloud Infrastructure, including a firm grasp of the cloud Shared Responsibility Model and how to implement it effectively.
• Framework Knowledge: Basic knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM, ITIL) and a solid technical understanding of the security domain are prerequisites.
• Language & Communication: Excellent proficiency in spoken and written English alongside fluent German is a plus.
• Join our mission, join our team - and grow with us!
• At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an

Benefits

Additional Information

Raisin is the world's leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the FinTech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing . Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market. Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from more than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns. Team For this challenging and highly impactful role, we are seeking a dedicated, highly communicative IT Security Manager with vision and drive. In this position, you will lead and develop Raisin's internal security teams. You will act as a critical internal sparring partner (for Business, IT, and the 2nd Line of Defense) and take the absolute lead in coordinating our technical security implementation. As a versatile leader with a comprehensive overview of our security posture, you will ensure that our internal operations are resilient, compliant with regulations like DORA, and seamlessly executed by your teams.

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