Security Architect

Security Architect

Perm full-time.

Fully Remote

SALARY: £70,000 - £75,000 + £5,400 Car allowance

CLEARANCE: Must be eligible for Security Clearance

Security Architect role:

• Understands the business and information risk context and propose architectures and countermeasures to mitigate risks from solutions.
• Analyses existing and proposed technical architecture for security risk, applying secure architecture principles and practices to assure technical architectures.
• Assures implementation of security controls mitigate risks.
• Provides expert technical advice to support the design and development secure architectures.
• Inputs detail on security control implementations and testing into to security risk management tooling
• Supports security consultants by providing security control details, any gaps, and provide evidence of implementations.
• Supports the Security Lead in wider operational security delivery including advocating a strong security culture and training to new joiners.
• Works with wider business stakeholders including customers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Producing high level designs, Security Architecture Designs (SAD) and conceptual architecture documentation, with specific focus on Security and Information Assurance.
• Consult and contribute to the design of innovative security solutions addressing the needs of our clients.
• Advising our clients on the architecture of their secure business systems.
• Working with programmes to collaborate enterprise architectures to produce end-to-end security designs.
• Provide specialist advice and recommend approaches across projects, teams and stakeholders.
• Providing advice on key security related technologies and assess risks associated with proposed changes.
• Assisting on bids, proposal for works, as well as on implementations and integrations to provide guidance to our clients through their security issues to practical solutions.
• Application of the likes of TOGAF, SABSA, NCSC Cloud Security Enterprise Architecture principles to all Architectures.

Security Architect requirements:

• Ability to articulate and pitch security advice, often at a technical level, directly to key customer stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience of architecting secure solutions
• Experience of designing and/or implementing security controls using Microsoft standard tooling in a large organisation
• Experience in providing advice on data protection, information security and business continuity.
• Experience of designing and implementation of components of secure systems or services.
• Proven track record in designing complex solutions within security.
• IT Security Architecture experience including TOGAF and SABSA.
• Conversant with security best practices (including ISO27001) and relevant security legislation.
• Will have achieved certification as a CISSP, GIAC or CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent).
• Knowledge of Cloud Security or Email or Identity and Access Management Design and Implementations.

Security Architect desired skill sets:

• Security qualification such as CISSP or equivalent experience
• Experience using security risk management tooling.
• Cloud Security Architect (AWS and AZURE)