Chief Information Security Officer

Red Compass Labs are payments experts focused exclusively on payments modernization. The company works with banks and platform vendors around the world to deliver scheme migrations, platform builds, and large-scale modernization programs faster and with less risk than traditional consulting.

Over the last 23 years, Red Compass Labs has delivered 500+ projects across the world’s major payments schemes and platforms, including SEPA, Swift, the Real-time Payments Network, and Fed Now on the scheme side, ISO 20022 migrations, and FIS Open Payments Framework (OPF), Finastra Global PAYplus (GPP), ACI Connetic, and many others on the platform side.

The company's flagship product is the Payments Expert Agent, an AI solution purpose-built for the full payments modernization software development lifecycle. From requirements analysis through development, testing, and deployment.

It’s trained on the company's decades of delivery expertise and more than 30,000 curated payments documents. Certified to SOC 2 Type II, the Payments Expert Agent deploys inside the bank's environment and enables modernization teams deliver complex programs faster, at lower cost, and to a higher standard.

In parallel, Red Compass Labs helps banks detect financial crime hidden within payment flows. The Red Flag Accelerator is a global reference for detecting modern slavery, human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, elder abuse, drug trafficking, scams, and authorized push payment fraud. It combines a persona-oriented detection approach with red flags, crime models, and open-source intelligence. The Financial Crime Unit delivers practitioner‑grade intelligence and scoring models that support live investigations and law enforcement action.

Red Compass Labs supports clients from offices in London, Warsaw, Brussels, Miami, Boston, Toronto, and Pune. For more information, visit

Mission:

Security is no longer a support function. It is a strategic enabler.

As Chief Information Security Officer, you will shape and lead the security, governance, privacy, and AI risk strategy of Red Compass Labs during a period of significant growth and innovation.

You will own the security posture of both our internal operations and the cloud environments supporting our AI‑powered products. Working directly with the CEO, Board, executive leadership team, and product organisation, you will ensure that security enables innovation rather than slowing it down.

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced security leader to influence company strategy, guide AI governance, strengthen client trust, and build a high‑performing security function from the ground up.

As Chief Information Security Officer, you will:

Strategic Security Leadership

• Define and execute the company's security strategy, roadmap, and governance framework.
• Act as the executive owner of information security, AI security, IT governance, privacy, and risk management.
• Advise the CEO and Board on security posture, emerging risks, compliance, and strategic investments.
• Own the security of Red Compass Labs' cloud and infrastructure landscape across Azure, AWS, Run Pod, Microsoft 365, and Entra.
• Lead vulnerability management, access governance, incident response, and security monitoring.
• Ensure security controls scale alongside business and product growth.

AI Security & Governance

• Drive governance and security standards across our growing portfolio of AI products and AI agents.
• Build frameworks addressing emerging AI risks including prompt injection, model security, data leakage, agent governance, and access control.
• Lead the organisation's AI governance journey, including ISO/IEC 42001 readiness.

Compliance, Privacy & Client Assurance

• Maintain and evolve our ISO 27001 and SOC 2 programmes.
• Ensure…