Lead Security Architect

Lead Security Architect

Manchester Digital

Manchester

GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Up to £60,300 per annum + See advert.
Manchester Published on 20 January 2025 Deadline 10 February 2025

Help us Shape the Future of Secure Systems

Are you passionate about security architecture and looking for a role where your expertise can make a real difference? At the Home Office, we use cutting-edge technology to keep the UK safe and secure. Our Digital, Data, and Technology (DDaT) profession is at the forefront of designing, building, and managing critical systems.

We are recruiting for 7 Lead Security Architects in 3 different portfolios: Enablers, Networks and Infrastructure (N&I), and Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS). To find out more about each portfolio, please find attached the Portfolio Summary document on the advert on Civil Service Jobs.

A Lead Security Architect is responsible for driving the secure design and development of solutions for one or more major business sectors within the department. They lead the security engagement for all projects within their portfolio, ensuring that the department's security design standards are adhered to. Providing an 'out-reach' service to your business areas to advise on security requirements and solutions to enable technical teams to make security decisions, ensuring the effective use of common tools and products.

What You'll Do

1. Contribute to the vision, strategy, and principles defined by the Principal Security Architect, aligning with portfolio and departmental needs.
2. Oversee the security engagement for projects within your business sphere and cooperate with colleagues to find common solutions to similar challenges across all business lines.
3. Drive 'secure by design' by promoting security as an aspect of quality, ensuring that program, project, and service managers own this responsibility.
4. Follow developments in the security and technology industry to ensure that the technology landscape is kept secure in line with industry standards.
5. Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support a business objective, working out subtle security needs and understanding the impact of decisions, balancing requirements and deciding between approaches.
6. Provide specialist advice and recommend approaches, interacting with senior stakeholders across departments and influencing a wide range of people across larger teams and communities to execute security standards, policies, and principles. This will include advising on key security-related technologies and assessing the risk associated with proposed changes.

What You'll Bring

1. Lead and evaluate the secure design of major products, services, and input to complex solutions, challenging outmoded concepts and driving improvements with innovation, creating precedents and setting direction.
2. Make and guide effective decisions on risks, based on information assurance risk assessment methodology, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
3. Apply security concepts to a technical level across multiple projects, working with security tools, network security infrastructure technologies, and information security management frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST).
4. Work with penetration testing teams and effectively translate cyber risk analysis into standards, patterns, and approaches to enable the safe exploitation of current and emerging technologies.
5. Understand NCSC information security guidance and architecture patterns.
6. Understand architecture methodology e.g. SABSA, TOGAF.

At the Home Office, your work has real-world impact, shaping the safety and security of millions. We offer:

1. Meaningful Work: Contribute to critical national security and public service initiatives.
2. Career Growth: Benefit from tailored development frameworks and professional communities.
3. Flexible Working: Balance your professional and personal life with hybrid work options.
4. Diversity and Inclusion: Join a workplace where your unique background and talents are celebrated.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Additional Information

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas.

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