Security Architect - London, Durham, Glasgow or Lytham

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Security Architect to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London, Durham, Glasgow or Lytham.

Our client is seeking an experienced Security Architect who will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into secure designs and services. You will evaluate services, suppliers, applications and security tools, from a technical and security architecture perspective, and translate the risk characteristics of these activities and functions into enterprise risk terms.

You will play a key role to ensure proposed solutions follow the firm’s cloud-native and secure-by-design principles, identifying opportunities to use emerging technologies safely within risk appetite, while supporting the firm’s fast-follower strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the firm’s security architecture, enabling service providers to implement solutions and capabilities in accordance with the firm’s security policy
• Develop security architecture strategies and roadmaps
• Develop and maintain security architecture artefacts (e.g. principles, models, templates and standards) to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
• Support the review and approval of designs at appropriate design authorities from a security perspective
• Review technologies, tools and services, while making recommendations to the design authority for their implementation, based on security and operational metrics
• Liaise with other security practitioners and delivery partner architects to ensure the most appropriate, lowest impact security solution designs are selected
• Contribute to Enterprise Architecture development and implementation
• Track developments, changes in the business and external environments to ensure that they are addressed in security architecture artefacts
• Validate IT infrastructure and other reference architectures against security best practices and recommend changes, where applicable
• Support design change governance and assessment of change materiality while coordinating with the Data Architect to document sensitive data flows in the organisation

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a Security Architect
• Experience working in complex outsourced environments with diverse technologies, while navigating public sector constraints on solutions and governance
• Highly experienced in defining security architecture and governance principles in an organisation, with the assurance processes to monitor compliance
• Extensive experience delivering IT systems using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a focus on implementing security throughout the delivery process
• Proficient in supporting the implementation of a secure, public cloud and SaaS solutions in large, complex organisations
• Strong expertise in vulnerability management tools and in designing and implementing security infrastructure

Desirable

• Degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity or a related field
• Experience in using architecture methodologies such as TOGAF and preferably TOGAF certified
• Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NCSC guidance and best practice, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (DPA)

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM 

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.