Security Architect

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Salt Full time

Job Description

The Security Architect is responsible for leading the development of security architecture and processes to embed the strategic application of security-related change across systems and solutions.

The role owns the security domain architecture and oversees the design of security systems, setting appropriate design guardrails, standards, and policies to guide the development and implementation of products and platforms

Accountabilities

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide security architecture policies, patterns, processes and guardrails to embed the strategic application of change to ensure resilience of systems and solutions.

• Establish and manage the Security Architecture practice and capabilities

• Oversee the design of security systems, setting appropriate design guardrails, standards, and policies, balancing functional and non-functional requirements, and managing associated risks.

• Set strategies, policies, standards and practices to ensure compliance and alignment between business strategies, technology strategies, and security activities.

• Lead definition and continued maturity of Security Architecture frameworks which aligns to wider enterprise-wide architecture.

• Capture and prioritise market and environmental trends that impact security, identifying business benefits of alternative security strategies.

• Support the development of IT’s information security strategy, ensuring that it aligns with wider Enterprise Architecture standards and IT objectives.

• Build strategic relationships with external stakeholders to understand security requirements and pain-points.

• Support the development of wider security roadmaps that provide proactive capabilities which enable business objectives.

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.)

Skills:

• Security and Enterprise-wide architecture. Ability to develop a security architecture and support the development of a future state architecture aligned to strategy. Ability to support the translation of business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives

• Governance and assurance. Ability to evolve and define governance and take responsibility for working with other stakeholders across wider governance structure. Assure standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern delivery

• Problem definition and shaping. Ability to define security-related strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working within a strategic context.

• Agile working. Ability to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices

• Stakeholder communication. Ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels and manage stakeholder expectations

• Emerging technology monitoring. Ability to identify and assess new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of IT Security Frameworks, methodologies, and best practice / guidance such as NCSC standards

• Familiarity with ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus

• Knowledge of agile methods and their implications for Security Architecture

• Knowledge of architecture principles, patterns, and their application within an organisation

Type of Experience:

• Experience across industry frameworks and best practices (E.g., NCSC CAF, CIS CSC, etc.)

• Experience of supporting design for complex solutions including risks and remedies

• Experience of overseeing high-level designs for major solutions, managing design requirements, and maintaining an audit trial for a design control process

• Experience of defining complex technical models and communicating technical models clearly to stakeholders at all levels.

• Experience of successfully applying Security Architecture methods and approaches to complex scenarios.

• Experience working in a multi-vendor environment.

• Experience of enabling and informing risk-based decisions

• Experience dealing with the security implications of transformation and day-to-day product changes

• Experience working with system architectures, displaying a strong understanding of the impact of vulnerabilities on varied systems

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