Archer Recruitment
Lead Security Architect
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Lead Security Architect
Fully Remote | UK & Ireland | Enterprise Security Architecture
This is an opportunity to join a globally recognised organisation undertaking a large-scale security transformation across cloud, infrastructure, applications and enterprise platforms.
As Lead Security Architect, you will play a key role in shaping the organisation's security strategy, defining architecture standards, and ensuring security is embedded across major technology initiatives.
You'll work closely with senior stakeholders, engineering teams, and architecture functions to drive secure-by-design principles and influence security decisions at enterprise scale. This role remains highly hands-on from an architecture perspective and would suit someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges across cloud, identity, network, data and application domains.
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The Role
- Lead security architecture across enterprise-wide transformation programmes
- Define and maintain security standards, patterns, reference architectures and design principles
- Conduct threat modelling, risk assessments and security design reviews
- Drive Secure-by-Design practices across cloud and application delivery teams
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure and architecture teams to ensure security requirements are embedded from inception through delivery
- Provide architectural guidance across cloud, identity, network, data and platform security domains
- Support security tooling strategy, vendor evaluations and technology roadmaps
- Influence senior stakeholders and provide expert security guidance across the organisation
What you Bring
- Proven experience as a Security Architect within large enterprise environments
- Strong cloud security expertise, particularly in AWS
- AWSExperience designing and reviewing security architecture across cloud, identity, network and data domains
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust, threat modelling and Secure-by-Design principles
- Experience producing security designs, reference architectures and architecture documentation (HLDs/LLDs)
- Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST and ISO27001
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Why Join?
- Fully remote position in the UK
- Enterprise-scale security transformation initiatives
- Opportunity to shape security strategy and architecture standards
- Broad exposure across cloud, infrastructure, data, application and emerging technology security
- High-impact role with significant influence across technology and business teams
- Up to £110,000 + 20% bonus & strong benefits package
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