The Opportunity
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The Cyber and Information Security Team play a critical role in supporting our internal business functions alongside our external customer commitments. NCC Group’s internal security team work to develop, introduce and maintain administrative, technical and physical security controls to continually improve the Group’s security.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Security Architect to lead the review, design and implementation of our estate from a security perspective. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a robust security posture across our organisation, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data.
This role requires a deep understanding of security principles, technologies, and industry best practices. This role presents an excellent opportunity to support this area and will help the Security Team in managing its cyber risks and meeting its business requirements. You will be working together closely with the Design Authority focussing on uplifting groups architecture from a security perspective.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Investigating the ‘as is’ state currently in place across the groups systems and networks. Produce a picture of company assets and where any security concerns may arise.
2. Assisting in identifying the areas of priority for any security improvements.
3. Planning and designing security architecture improvements.
4. Recommending security controls and identifying secure solutions that support well defined business objective.
5. Providing specialist security advice and recommendations across teams and various stakeholders.
6. Reviewing system security measures and recommending necessary enhancements.
7. Being an expert advisor on the secure design of systems within the security team and providing security advice, guidance and sign off to the rest of Global Technical Services.
8. Defining and documenting how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems impacts the security posture of the current environment.
9. Help the company constantly strive to improve cyber health, seeking out and exploiting opportunities for improvement.
10. You must be willing to travel to NCC office locations globally and stay away from home on occasion.
Minimum Requirements:
11. Proven experience as a Lead Security Architect or similar role.
12. Prior knowledge of Security architecture in a number of different technologies.
13. Strong working knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, and computer operating software.
14. Advanced understanding of security protocols, cryptography, and security.
15. The aptitude and ability to quickly absorb technical detail of new or unfamiliar technologies is essential.
16. Proven experience with writing architecture documentation.
Desirable Requirements:
Knowledge of as many of these technologies as possible is highly desirable:
17. Various Endpoints (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
18. Multiple hypervisor and guest server operating systems (VMware, Citrix, Windows Server, SQL Server)
19. Active Directory, including Red Forest/PAWS architectures
20. MDM, and in particular Microsoft Intune
21. Endpoint protection technology, particularly Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
22. Knowledge of Email security technology, particularly Microsoft Defender for Office 365
23. Microsoft 365 and Office 365
24. Azure, including Azure AD and Entra
25. Amazon Web Services
26. Knowledge of Protective Monitoring/SIEM/SOAR
27. Archimate or other modelling languages and frameworks
28. Experience with adaption of architecture frameworks for example Togaf (ADM)
29. Threat modelling experience
Behaviours:
30. Focusing on Clients and Customers
31. Working as One NCC
32. Being Inclusive and Respectful
33. Always Learning
34. Delivers Brilliantly
What we offer in return:
35. 🌟 Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
36. 🌴 Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
37. 🧠 Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
38. 💼 Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
39. 🤝Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
40. ⚡ Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
41. 🚴 Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
42. 🎉 Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
43. 👨 👩 👧 👦 Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.
About NCC Group
The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.
We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.