Lead Technical Security Architect - Telecoms

We are currently recruiting a Lead Technical Security Architect or an Enterprise Security Architect Consultants to join our growing Security Consulting practice. If you are passionate about Information and Cyber Security Architecture with a strong consulting background, are obsessive about solving business and client challenges, and if you are strongly security risk focused… We can provide an excellent platform to develop your ambition and career, while helping our clients tackle some of their biggest challenges.

What you'll be doing

This is a great opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in helping to shape our client’s transformation journeys. Using your consultative background, you will be able to:

• Work in the capabilities phases of the systems development life cycle; unpacking and translating technology security requirements, business and environmental conditions (e.g., law and regulations) into enterprise security architecture patterns and processes at contextual, conceptual or logical levels.
• Draw upon Enterprise Security Architecture or Technical Security Architecture experience to:
  • Identify
    • Business objectives, goals and strategy.
    • Business attributes that are required to achieve those goals.
    • Enterprise assets, systems, and information processes to support enterprise mission needs.
    • Stakeholder security requirements for protecting the organization’s mission and business processes.
    • The risk associated with the attributes that can prevent a business from achieving its goals.
    • The required controls to manage the risk.
    • Assumptions, issues and dependencies.
  • Define
    • Strategic, tactical and operational client Enterprise Security Architecture or Security Solution Architecture options.
    • Information Technology (IT), Network & Security principles, and the requirements that describe baseline and target architectures.
    • Security architectures that manage business risks.
    • Logical Security control architectures, mapping to conceptual and contextual architectures.
    • Organizational and Operational architectures.
    • Security controls in line with good industry Security practices (for example: NIST, ISO, CIS, NCSC, etc.), and relevant UK Cyber Regulation and Standards.
    • Programmes or project to design and implement those controls.
• Review, challenge / validate
  • Client requirements and supporting Use Cases.
  • Solution and segment architectures align to business mission and processes.
• Oversee, evaluate, and support
  • Documentation, validation, assessment, and authorisation processes necessary to assure new and existing information.
  • Discovery and audits, for extraction of findings and documentation of recommendations.
  • The adoption of Cyber / Technology Security Controls Frameworks (NIST / ISO / ISF / COBIT / etc.) and using this to implement solutions.
• Demonstrate
  • Subject matter knowledge in the architecture of specific Security domains (for example: PAM / IAM, Cloud, IoT, Threat Profiling, etc.).
• Your ability to take both clients and colleagues on a journey.
• Knowledge of concepts and principles of 'Secure by Design' and 'Zero Trust'.
• Experienced in shaping a variety of end to end control requirements across; application, systems and infrastructure, in hybrid Cloud (inc. O/D365, AWS, Azure, GCP) and On-Prem.
• Ability to architect solutions across service and network infrastructure. With a solid foundation in both.