Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Location: Cambridge/ Hybrid with 2 days a week minimum in the office Contract: Permanent Hours: 35 hours per week Join our organisation as a Security Assurance Lead. Utilise your expertise and drive to safeguard operations in this impactful role. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridg click apply for full job details

Join our organisation as a Security Assurance Lead. Utilise your expertise and drive to safeguard operations in this impactful role. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. About the role As Security Assurance Lead, you will play a key role in protecting Cambridge University Press & Assessment's information assets and strengthening our security posture. You will lead assurance activity across security testing, risk management, governance and compliance, working closely with technology, security and business teams to identify risks, improve controls and support secure ways of working. This is a varied and influential role where you will help us understand and reduce our exposure to cyber threats, shape practical security guidance, and ensure assurance activities are embedded across our technology environment. Lead security assurance activity across areas such as attack surface management, vulnerability management, penetration testing and security posture improvement. Work with technology and security teams to identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities across systems, applications, cloud services and infrastructure. Develop and maintain security policies, standards and guidance that support effective assurance testing and secure delivery. Support risk assessments, supplier security reviews and risk register management, ensuring risks are clearly understood, tracked and reported. Contribute to security governance, compliance activities and external assessments, including alignment with frameworks such as ISO 27001 and NIST. Use threat intelligence, testing outcomes and assurance data to help shape priorities, improve resilience and inform senior stakeholders. Support incident preparedness, including investigations and exercises that test our ability to respond effectively. Help shape our security strategy, monitor emerging threats and intelligence, identifying opportunities to strengthen our approach through security automation. This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. About You We are looking for someone with extensive knowledge of 5+ year experience in security testing and assurance and a strong understanding of information security principles, emerging threats, best practices, compliance frameworks and (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST) and risk management practices. You should hold a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with relevant professional qualifications including CISSP and accredited security testing. You should have proven experience in developing and managing security risks and mitigations within medium to large organisations with strong experience in stakeholder management. You should have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation, analytical skills to measure the effectiveness of vulnerability management plans, and be very self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously. If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: Development and maintained a supply chain risk register within a similar sized organisation Have hands on experience of the use of various AI applications and tooling, including, for example, Microsoft CoPilot, Claude etc Have experience using and deploying Pen Testing and Vulnerability Management Tools such as Tenable within complex infrastructure Experience of reporting risks to senior leadership For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site. We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 2 nd September. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after. The application and interview process consists of: 3 role related questions with brief answers A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager. First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

Ready to shape the future of people technology at a global organisation? We are looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Manager - Workday and People Systems to lead the delivery, support, and continuous improvement of our critical HR technology platforms, the core of which is Workday. Working at the heart of our technology and people functions, you'll play a key role in ensuring our platforms are secure, reliable, and enable an exceptional colleague experience We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. About the role As Technical Delivery Manager, you will lead a specialist team responsible for the delivery, support and governance of Workday and our wider People Systems landscape. You will combine strong technical expertise with delivery leadership, ensuring solutions are delivered effectively while maintaining high levels of service performance and platform security. Reporting to the Head of Colleague Solutions, you will manage a team of 6-8 colleagues and work closely with the Technical Solution Owner, People & Culture teams, Recruitment, Payroll and external partners to deliver business value through technology. Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include: Manage the delivery of People Systems solutions using methodology, from User Story Refinement to deployment and live service support. Managing and developing a skilled HR Solutions Delivery team, providing coaching, technical guidance and career development support. Acting as a technical subject matter expert for Workday and People Systems, ensuring best-practice configuration and implementation approaches. Managing third-party suppliers and implementation partners to ensure successful delivery outcomes. Contributing to the People Systems roadmap and overseeing regular development and release cycles. Ensuring all solutions meet quality, testing, architecture and service transition standards. Leading specialist 2nd and 3rd line support services, ensuring service levels are consistently achieved or exceeded. Driving ITIL-aligned service management practices, incident resolution and continuous improvement initiatives. Owning security, access governance, data governance and audit readiness across supported platforms. Building strong relationships across Technology and People & Culture teams to support organisational objectives. This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. About You You will be an experienced technology leader with strong Workday expertise, a passion for service excellence, and a track record of leading high-performing teams. To be successful, you'll demonstrate: Extensive knowledge of Workday and People Systems. Workday HCM certification and at least one additional Workday certification. Strong knowledge of ITIL and Scrum frameworks. At least five years' experience, or demonstrable experience, in technical and functional configuration of Workday. Strong understanding of Workday security, access governance, data governance, audit readiness and data privacy. Proven experience delivering solutions using agile methodologies. Significant experience of incident management, change management and IT service management practices. Experience leading and developing technical teams. Proactive approach to continuous improvement and ensuring system health. Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills. Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills. Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience. If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: ITIL certification. Scrum Master or Agile certification. Experience supporting additional Workday products and modules such as VNDLY. For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site. We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 14 August 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after. As part of the application process, you can expect: One skills-based question at point of CV application stage A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager. First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

Job Title: Principal Developer & Team Lead Salary: £51,400 - £68,800 Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time 35 hours per week As a team lead with strong technical instincts you're ready to take the next step with more scope, more shaping of what gets built, more influence over how things are done but you're not ready to put down your tools. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. You'll lead transitions taking place in our organisation: migrating legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native AWS architectures, while helping us establish two practices from close to scratch including Site Reliability Engineering and AI development. About the role Alongside that broader technical leadership, you'll be the principal developer on a focused project within the programme deep ownership of a specific delivery, hands-in-the-code, designing and building it end-to-end. You'll spend most of your time close to the code: setting direction, setting the standard in design and review, and writing code alongside the team. You'll also be the line manager for a small team of developers. We're not looking for a fully formed people leader we're looking for someone who cares about the people around them and wants to grow into that part of the role. You'll have support and development to grow into it over time. The bulk of your focus is on the technical work. You'll be the principal developer on a focused project within the migration programme your own delivery to design, build and own. Around that, you'll lead the wider migration to AWS, build the DevOps automation and observability that lets SRE practices take hold, and establish the standards for how we use AI responsibly in education products. You'll set the technical bar through code reviews, design conversations and your own contributions not from a distance. On the team side, you'll be the line manager for a small team of developers: one-to-ones, development conversations, helping people find their next step. As you settle in, you'll take on more of the wider people work recruitment, performance, identifying where the team needs to grow in AI/ML and SRE. We'll support you to learn this side of the role; we don't expect you to arrive with it fully formed. You'll deliver in agile squads alongside architects, product owners, technical leads, SREs and infrastructure teams, and you'll be the technical voice in stakeholder conversations about what's possible. This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. About You A current or recent team lead ready to step up technically. The bar that matters most: You've led developers before, formally or informally, and people have grown around you You're fluent in two or more modern languages and you still write code regularly You've worked with AWS (or an equivalent cloud) in anger not just touched it You understand CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and what observability actually means in production You can hold a conversation about event-driven architecture, microservices and security in cloud environments at a level beyond the textbook You communicate clearly with engineers and non-engineers, and you're open to growing the people-leadership side of the role with support If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: Hands-on exposure to AI/ML in production systems Experience helping establish SRE or observability practice early on A track record of modernising legacy systems without breaking them What this role offers someone taking the next step Genuine scope from the start you'll be shaping the SRE function and AI practice, not inheriting someone else's blueprint, while owning a focused project as principal developer that keeps you firmly in the code. A small team to lead and learn from. A leadership team that expects you to stay close to the code, and that will support you to grow as a people leader at your own pace. And work that has real reach the systems you help build serve millions of learners, teachers and researchers worldwide. For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site. We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 14 th June We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after it closes. If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: Two questions to select one answer from multiple options. A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager. First stage interview via MS Teams or in person. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities. Documents Job-Description - Principal Developer Team Lead V01.00 .pdf (117.42 KB)

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