Public Sector | 23-9-2024
Lead Security Architect
Location: Remote with occasional travel to London.
You’ll have a demonstratable passion for Security Architecture, with the following skills or strong experience in:
- Leading and evaluating the secure design of major products, services and input to complex solutions, challenging outmoded concepts and driving improvements with innovative, creating precedents and setting direction.
- Making and guiding effective decisions on risks, based on information assurance risk assessment methodology, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
- Applying security concepts to a technical level across multiple projects, working with security tools, network security infrastructure technologies, and information security management frameworks.
- Working with penetration testing and effectively translating cyber risk analysis into standards, patterns and approaches to enable the safe exploitation of current and emerging technologies.
- Understanding NCSC information security guidance and architecture patterns.
- Understanding architecture methodology e.g. SABSA, TOGAF
Desirable Skills
Ideally you will also have the following skills or some experience in:
- Leading and inspiring a dynamic team to support the secure design of products and services.
- Networking within the broader security industry, sharing best practice within and beyond the Portfolio they lead.
- Communicating clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users, with a good understanding of different channels and formats for different audiences and can adapt to stakeholders' reactions with flexibility.
- Understanding and articulating the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs and systems, and how easy or difficult it will be to exploit these vulnerabilities.
