Overview
Job Title: Cybersecurity Architect
Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to £537 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 06/10/2025
Job Type: Contract
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Cybersecurity Architect to join their team for an initial contract until the end of the year.
Responsibilities
* You will manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, you will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
* Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements
* Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process
* Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
* Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
* Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
* Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
* Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes
* Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation
* Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
* Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change
* Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
* Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessary
Required Skills/Experience
* The ideal candidate will have the following: Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud
* Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
* Excellent command of cybersecurity organisation practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
* Experience and understanding of both the roles and interlock between enterprise & solution architecture
* Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives
* Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes
* Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
* Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
* Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
* Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
* Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
* Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
* CISSP/CISM certification
* SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies
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