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Eames Consulting

IT Risk Manager

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 80,000 /year

Full Time

27-01-2026

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Skills

Communication Firewalls Stakeholder Management Azure AWS cloud platforms

Job Specifications

Eames Consulting are partnered with a leading Insurer to appoint a IT Risk Manager.

The IT Risk Manager is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating IT and data risks in line with regulatory requirements and industry best practice within the organisation.

The role acts as the primary point of contact for IT risk matters, supporting senior engineering teams and working closely with risk, compliance, security, and audit functions. It ensures strong IT general controls, effective risk frameworks, and ongoing regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities include:

Owning and improving processes for technology and data risk
Designing, implementing, and assuring IT and data controls
Conducting risk assessments for new and existing technologies and services
Reporting on control effectiveness and risk posture to governance forums
Supporting incident management and resolution of major security/data incidents

Required experience and skills include:

Strong knowledge of IT security technologies (e.g. IAM, SIEM, firewalls, cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure)
Understanding of application security threats and emerging information security risks
Hands-on experience with IT risk frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST)
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to balance commercial priorities with security, risk, and compliance needs

About the Company

CREATING OPPORTUNITY. Eames Consulting is a contingent recruitment business with international reach, specialising at the mid-to-senior level of the insurance, financial services, and technology markets. We are driven by a common purpose: to make opportunity happen. We create opportunity for our clients to transform their business. We create opportunity for our candidates to thrive in the right job and culture. And we create opportunities for each other to get the best out of our work and ourselves. Our consultants are... Know more