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Security Architect
Shape Security Strategy. Influence Enterprise Decisions. Protect What's Next.
We're partnering with a large-scale, technology-driven organisation undergoing significant digital transformation. As a Security Architect, you'll play a critical role in shaping security strategy, guiding major technology initiatives, and ensuring secure outcomes across a complex enterprise environment.
This is an opportunity for an experienced security professional who enjoys solving challenging architectural problems, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping organisations embed security into every stage of technology delivery.
The Opportunity
As a trusted security advisor, you'll work closely with technology leaders, architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to design secure solutions, assess cyber risks, and drive security-focused decision making across a wide range of initiatives.
You'll be responsible for balancing business objectives with security requirements, ensuring modern platforms, applications, and cloud environments are protected against evolving threats while enabling innovation and growth.
What You'll Be Doing
- Providing expert security architecture guidance across major technology and transformation programmes.
- Assessing solution designs, identifying security risks, and recommending pragmatic controls and mitigations.
- Collaborating with architecture, engineering, and delivery teams to embed security into solution design from inception.
- Influencing stakeholders at all levels to achieve secure and commercially sensible outcomes.
- Contributing to the evolution of enterprise security standards, patterns, frameworks, and reference architectures.
- Supporting governance processes and ensuring appropriate risk management practices are adopted.
- Advising on emerging threats, industry trends, and modern security best practices.
- Mentoring colleagues and promoting security awareness across technical teams.
- Improving architectural processes, methodologies, and security design approaches to drive consistency and efficiency.
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Significant experience in Security Architecture, or a Solution Architecture background with strong exposure to cyber security.
- Strong ability to engage with senior stakeholders and communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience designing security solutions within large, complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of risk management, security governance, and secure architecture principles.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or a related discipline.
Domain Expertise In One Or More Of The Following Areas
Cyber Defence & Security Operations
Experience with technologies and concepts such as:
- Security monitoring and detection platforms
- Security information and event management (SIEM)
- Threat detection and response
- Security automation and orchestration
- User and entity behaviour analytics
- Incident response and investigation
- Cloud security architectures and controls
Identity & Access Management (Workforce)
Experience with:
- Authentication and authorisation frameworks
- Identity governance and lifecycle management
- Privileged access management
- Directory services
- Zero Trust principles
- Access and entitlement management
- Cloud identity platforms
- Secrets management
Customer Identity & Access Management
Experience with:
- Customer authentication and authorisation
- Identity lifecycle management
- Digital identity and access solutions
- Secure customer-facing platforms
- Modern cloud-native and API-driven architectures
Highly Desirable
- Exposure to cloud platforms and modern enterprise technology ecosystems.
- Understanding of DevSecOps, application security, data security, and infrastructure security.
- Experience balancing security, commercial objectives, customer experience, and delivery priorities.
- Familiarity with security product landscapes and emerging cyber trends.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, cloud security certifications, or equivalent.
- Experience working within mature security and risk management frameworks.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Work on enterprise-scale technology and security challenges.
- Influence strategic decisions across critical business initiatives.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and high-performing technical teams.
- Exposure to cloud, identity, cyber defence, and modern architecture practices.
- Significant scope for professional growth and long-term career development.
- Opportunity to shape security outcomes that have real organisational impact.
Ideal for Security Architects who enjoy combining deep technical expertise, stakeholder influence, and strategic thinking to help organisations stay secure while enabling innovation.