Head of Security, IT & AI Governance

Head of Security, IT & AI Governance

Obligo is looking for a Head of Security, IT & AI Governance to own security and IT end to end. You will set the strategy, lead the team, and also roll up your sleeves to deploy, configure and investigate yourself. You will secure a fintech that handles open-banking and sensitive financial data, and an AI-powered product and workforce, from day one.

What you will do

• Own security and IT strategy. Define and execute the multi-year security and IT roadmap, budget and scorecards, and communicate risk clearly to leadership, customers and auditors.
• Secure our AI footprint. Improve our AI security and governance program covering AI tools used by employees (approved-tool lists, shadow-AI discovery, data-leakage controls) and AI built into our product (prompt injection, sensitive-data disclosure, excessive agency of AI agents, MCP/tool and model supply-chain risk, vector/RAG data exposure). Align with OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.
• Strengthen security monitoring and Zero Trust controls. Continuously improve detection, response and access security across AWS, Google Workspace, endpoints and Saa