Security Architect

Hybrid - Permanent - £65,000 - £75,000 + 15% bonus - Sunderland/ Newcastle/ Middlesbrough 

The company:

This company is dedicated to developing a live service that eliminates platform downtime, ensuring minimal disruption to customers’ lives during energy shortages. They are recognized as the leaders in their industry for community support and have made significant investments in their technical teams to enhance service reliability.

The role:

As an IT Security Architect, you will be responsible for implementing and managing the security infrastructure. This role involves defining the organisation’s security strategy, architecture, and practices, identifying IT Security risks, and translating these into technical control requirements. You will manage outcomes to deliver the required objectives and ensure that security measures are incorporated into strategic IT plans. This role is within a brand new 5-piece architecture team, revolutionising how platforms are used by the customer base.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.
• Consult with IS architects, management, security staff, and business units to integrate security into hardware, applications, and service configurations.
• Drive continuous improvement in IT and business processes related to IS Security, ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Develop a security architecture process that aligns security solutions and capabilities with business, technology, regulatory, and threat drivers.
• Provide advice on effective security strategies and counsel on security policies and practices to business stakeholders and support teams.
• Define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure decisions are aligned with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
• Support the Lead Architect in creating multi-year architectural roadmap forecasts, reflecting this in IT plans, annual budgets, and forecasts.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, application development, or cloud development.
• Proven experience in developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Strong working knowledge of conducting threat-modelling exercises for new applications and services.
• Practical knowledge of the information security standards domain.
• Experience working with external audit and certification organisations.
• Familiarity with the ISO27001 standard and knowledge of the NIS regulation and NCSC cyber assurance framework (CAF).
• Understanding of digitalisation in a regulated environment and experience managing complex projects.
• Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile, DevOps).

Benefits:

• 15% performance bonus
• 15% Pension contribution
• 25 Days annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Professional Development Opportunities  
• Access to the latest tools and technologies
• Supportive and collaborative work environment

Next Steps? If you would like to know anything more about this role or even just want to hear what other Infrastructure, Cloud and Security positions I have that may also be a good match for you then please apply to this advert / or catch me on LinkedIn "Hayley Bee

You must be fully eligible to work in the UK to apply to this position and be able to travel into office on occasion