Enterprise Security Architect

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom M&G plc Full time

At M&G our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clients and identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities. To help us achieve our vision we're looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliver results and keep it simple.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

We are currently undertaking a cyber security transformation programme designed to further enhance the security capabilities within M&G. As an Enterprise Security Architect, you will be a key influencer for this programme as well as supporting the wider business change portfolio. We need leaders who are technical security experts and are confident dealing with a range of stakeholders from the business to IT and strategic partners.

You will be

  • Using a risk-based methodology to pragmatically provide security input into technology strategies and roadmaps.
  • Acting as a subject matter expert in security, constructively challenging internal and external solution proposals when required.
  • Ensuring that the security implications of M&G's ambitious business strategy are properly assessed and effectively implemented.
  • Driving adoption of security best-practice across Technology and the business.
  • Governing solution designs to ensure they align with or enhance the security architecture.
  • Defining and implementing common architectural frameworks, standards, patterns and practices.
  • Working closely with stakeholders to define, maintain and communicate the security elements of our Enterprise Architecture.

You will have (Skills & Knowledge)

  • Significant experience of working on IT change projects with a good working understanding of a broad range of technologies, including cloud (particularly Azure and OCI), application and infrastructure.
  • Experience of defining and maintaining security architecture and strategy artefacts.
  • Expert knowledge of fundamental security concepts, the threat landscape and security best practices.
  • Experience of large enterprise environments including strategic and architectural integration of new digital services with legacy systems.
  • Strong security analysis skills, with the ability to recommend pragmatic security solutions that address threats while delivering business requirements.
  • Previous experience of enterprise security architecture and security solution design on complex projects.
  • Extensive experience of working in a business facing Information Security role, ideally within a regulated, financial services environment.
  • Good knowledge of governing security in both Agile and ITSM (e.g. Scaled Agile Framework/ ITIL)
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to describe technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Extensive experience articulating complex requirements into easy-to-understand security designs.
  • The ability to work alone or as part of a team, whilst working on multiple items simultaneously.
  • The ability to network with external bodies and individuals in the security field.
  • Ideally more detailed experience in the following areas to support our current focuses:
  • Zero Trust concepts and implementation.
  • Data security capabilities such as DRM, key management, DLP and data classification and protection.
  • Securing the public cloud in a cloud first environment including Azure and OCI.
  • Application Security (DevSecOps, SSDLC etc.)
  • Network Security including segmentation.

Desirable Qualifications

  • Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP)
  • SABSA Chartered Practitioner (SCP)
  • The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
  • Certificate Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

You will also be required to evidence the following

  • You can tackle complexity and make things simple for customers and those around you.
  • You're commercially savvy, you think competitively, and you'll seize a good opportunity whether large or small.
  • You love to innovate, exploring what matters to customers and creating solutions that make a positive difference.
  • You're a team player who can help everyone pull together to achieve shared goals.
  • You take responsibility for creating better outcomes by stepping forward, using your judgement and making things happen.
  • You thrive on a challenge, working with intellectual rigour at pace to achieve the highest standards of execution under all conditions.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.



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