The Enterprise Security Architect leads and governs enterprise-wide security architecture across all platforms and businesses. This role ensures security aligns with business strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements while enabling secure-by-design solutions. It embeds security into digital transformation and emerging technologies to support innovation, agility, and scalability.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and mature the Security Architecture capability across the Group, including standards, principles, reference architectures, and design governance.
- Define and maintain security architecture standards, reference architectures, patterns, and reusable blueprints (cloud landing zone controls, identity patterns, logging patterns, encryption patterns, secure integration).
- Own and approve security architecture and design for major programs, platforms, and transformation initiatives.
- Own the end-to-end application security architecture engagement across the delivery lifecycle, from early concept through to production and ongoing change.
- Define and operate a risk-based, iterative security architecture review model, integrated into agile and product delivery ways of working.
- Provide architectural leadership for cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), including secure landing zones and shared responsibility models.
- Continuously assess emerging technologies and threat trends and translate them into actionable architecture guidance.
- Define and report architecture KPIs (review cycle time, exception trends, repeat findings, pattern adoption).
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in Information Security, with significant experience in security architecture roles.
- Experience in regulated or high-risk environments (e.g., financial services, retail at scale, critical infrastructure).
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in cyber security, computer science, engineering, or a technology-related field, or equivalent.
- CISSP, CCSP, CREST Registered Technical Security Architect.
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP – Security specialization preferred).
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
