Lead Data Security Engineer

Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online delivery platform focused on empowering everyday convenience.

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.

These are some of the key components to 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.
• Prioritise 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, sound judgement, and integrity when handling sensitive information, with an understanding of the responsibility of 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.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins.