Lead Security Architect

We are looking for a Lead Security Architect to join our team in London, Dunstable, or Harrogate. As a Lead Security Architect, you will be responsible for delivering a quality service within the enterprise, guiding product and business teams on security best practices, and providing assurance that products are developed and deployed with the right balance of security.

Requirements

• Strong security mindset and knowledge of current best practices, common exploits and threat landscape.
• Broad security experience across a range of disciplines with demonstrable experience of implementing technology or business process solutions across software development, architecture, network security, assurance testing.
• Natural ability to negotiate with business to balance risk and security requirements with business opportunity, while ensuring ongoing compliance and regulatory needs.
• Confident in providing technical guidance to team members for complex decisions including cryptography, network design, application security, data protection, identity and access management etc.
• Experience of security governance frameworks as well as producing required security outputs, including documentation and threat models over the course of projects to meet deadlines.