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IT Security Architect - Hybrid - London
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I am recruiting for a Lead Security Architect for our very well established client within the Financial Services industry.
This position offers a flexible hybrid role, where you will only need to attend site approximately 50% of the time, with flexibility on working hours.
Lead Security Architect
- Permanent
- Location: London - Hybrid working model
- Salary: up to £90,000 + Good Benefits
Key Skills:
- Champion a modern security posture - threat informed and focused on measurable reduction of attack surface.
- Security architecture strategy & guardrails – define and evolve the security patterns, principles, standards, and roadmaps that guide projects and platforms.
- Secure-by-design delivery – partner with solution architects, SMEs and delivery teams to embed controls and use threat-led thinking throughout discovery, design, build, and delivery; ensure designs meet policy and technical standards.
- Act as senior architectural voice for high impact initiatives, aligning security capabilities to business outcomes and risk profiles, and shaping option analysis with clear trade-offs.
- Architecture governance – drive effective design reviews and signoffs; document how solutions interact with the wider enterprise and ensure compliance with our delivery and assurance frameworks.
- Cross-Technology influence – collaborate across Technology and business domains to translate strategy into target designs, balancing resilience with productivity and simplification.
- Partner with our Assurance team to land the right controls at the right stages, ensuring risk is actively surfaced and owned.
- Communicate complex security choices simply - at meetings/workshops, in option papers, and roadmaps that influence senior stakeholders and unblock decisions.
- Breadth and depth in IT/security architecture, with a track record delivering secure designs and steering multiteam programmes.
- Stakeholder leadership—comfortable influencing senior leaders and guiding engineers/SMEs; strong documentation and communication skills.
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- Knowledge of well-known Frameworks (e.g., NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) and the ability to apply them pragmatically within delivery.
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- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM).
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