Hybrid Senior Vulnerability Management & Testing Manager

at Santander

• Job title: Senior Vulnerability Management & Testing Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £76,385 - £114,577 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Vulnerability Management & Testing Manager at Santander driving vulnerability management and scenario testing initiatives. Lead technical analysis to enhance operational resilience across complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing a centralised vulnerability management capability, including a single source of truth for vulnerabilities across systems, services, and third parties.
• Developing risk-based prioritisation models, aligned to impact tolerances (IBS/ITOL) and scenario testing outputs.
• Leading data-driven vulnerability analysis, linking vulnerabilities to service architecture, dependencies, and resilience outcomes.
• Establishing robust remediation tracking, validation, and control effectiveness testing frameworks.
• Designing and delivering advanced scenario testing capability, including severe but plausible scenarios and quantitative impact modelling.
• Integrating incident data, threat intelligence, and vulnerability insights into testing and risk assessment frameworks.
• Producing Board-level MI and reporting, demonstrating exposure trends, resilience uplift, and control effectiveness.
• Acting as a senior risk SME, leading governance forums, influencing stakeholders, and driving compliance with regulatory and internal risk frameworks.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in operational risk, vulnerability management, or resilience within financial services (Required).
• Proven experience designing and implementing risk frameworks, vulnerability management, or scenario testing capabilities (Required).
• Experience applying data-driven approaches to risk identification, prioritisation, and remediation (Required).
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across technology, cyber, and business teams (Required).
• Undergraduate degree in Risk, Cybersecurity, Technology, Data, or related field (Preferred).
• Professional certifications in Risk Management, Cybersecurity, or Operational Resilience (Preferred).
• English (Required).

Benefits

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.
• Competitive rewards that reflect the real impact you make and the value you bring.
• Wellbeing that goes beyond work — we work with a range of wellbeing partners across our 4 pillars of wellbeing (physical, mental, social and financial) to give you access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support.
• Support for every life stage — from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support.
• Time to give back through volunteering opportunities that let you make a difference in the communities we serve.
• Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network.