About The Role

Reporting to the Application Security Team Lead, this role provides product security expertise to digital product and engineering teams as part of the Cyber Security function.

This is a hands-on engineering position - not just advisory. You’ll actively contribute to code, set up and integrate security tooling, respond to product-related security incidents, and work directly on solutions. The aim is to take as much of the security burden off product and engineering teams as possible, while embedding best practices throughout.

You’ll be integrated into multiple engineering squads, acting as their dedicated security expert and trusted partner. Day to day, that means building strong relationships with stakeholders, demonstrating the value of security, and influencing positive outcomes—all while enabling teams to move quickly and deliver safely.

Beyond supporting individual products, you’ll also play a pivotal role in raising our overall software security maturity—helping to shape governance, champion secure development practices, and drive Motability Operations toward operational excellence in application security.

About You

You are passionate about the technical security aspects of application development, with a focus on protecting customer data and driving high standards of engineering.

You’ll bring a background in hands-on secure software development or application security testing, along with proven experience working directly with development teams on security-related topics. Strong communication skills are essential: you’ll need to influence engineers and stakeholders at all levels while building trusted partnerships.

You understand the importance of “shifting left” in secure development, helping teams get early security feedback through the right practices and tooling. You’ll also have a solid grasp of modern software delivery approaches, including agile, and experience with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, React, and Node. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms like AWS is also important.

A strong working knowledge of the OWASP Top Ten, common application security frameworks and best practices, and threat modelling techniques is critical. Hands-on

Minimum Criteria

Experience in a hands-on Cyber Security focused role, primarily in the application security domain. Alternatively, candidates with strong hands-on application development role with a demonstratable level of cyber security knowledge and its application within a development environment would be considered.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 630,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.