CyberSecurity Architect

Cybersecurity Expertise:

• Significant experience and proven technical depth within the following domains: cryptography, data security, identity & access management, privileged access management.

• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level

• Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field

• CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate

Platform & Technology:

• Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management

• Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation

• BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Architecture, Technical & Design:

• 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

• Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security

• Promote strong documentation and clerkship

Governance:

• 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 and design artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation

• Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval

Risk and Dependency Management:

• Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues

• 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

Leadership & Teamwork

• Provides technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise

• Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME, particularly with knowledge of quantum safety.