Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Posted 1 week ago by 1755659108

Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Heathrow

Summary: The Principal Cyber Architect role involves reporting to the Head of Cyber Architecture and collaborating with various teams to manage high-risk cyber architecture projects. The position requires strategic planning and innovative security solutions while engaging with senior stakeholders. The architect will also contribute to the company's cyber architecture strategy and ensure alignment with emerging trends and best practices. This role demands a high level of expertise in security concepts and stakeholder management within a large enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work on projects with high strategic impact, setting a long-term strategy across the company.
  • Recommend security design across multiple projects or technologies at an organisational level.
  • Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to existing problems.
  • Interact with senior stakeholders across departments.
  • Design and review system architectures through reference architectures, patterns, and principles.
  • Own one or more domains of expertise within the cyber capability map.
  • Collaborate with Cyber Assurance teams on projects and agile product teams.
  • Represent company cyber architecture on technical governance groups.
  • Contribute to the enterprise cyber architecture strategy and roadmap.
  • Stay updated on emerging trends in security technologies and best practices.
  • Continuously evaluate and recommend security enhancements to adapt to evolving risks.

Key Skills:

  • Expert understanding of security concepts applicable at high-risk complexity levels.
  • Stakeholder management with complex relationships across the business.
  • Ability to develop and maintain cyber architectural artifacts.
  • Proficient in reviewing and producing technical cyber design resources.
  • Effective communication of security and risk implications to senior stakeholders.
  • Relevant cyber architecture qualifications (CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF) desirable.
  • At least 5 years of experience in cyber design/architecture in large enterprises.
  • Awareness of cyber design/architecture trends.
  • Experience in web development, DevSecOps, threat modelling, and secure design.
  • Experience of cyber design in an Agile development cycle.
  • Understanding of aviation systems (desirable).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Heathrow

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

ROLE TITLE – PRINCIPAL CYBER ARCHITECT

ROLE PURPOSE: This role reports to the Head of Cyber Architecture, working closely with Tech Delivery Teams, the Cyber Team and the Cyber Security Office. Act as the company Cyber representative on Cyber Architecture matters, undertakes complex work of a high-risk level, often working on several projects.

Accountabilities

  • Work on projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the breadth of company.
  • Recommend security design across several projects or technologies, up to an organisational or inter-organisational level.
  • Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing problems and be able to justify and communicate design decision.
  • Interact with senior stakeholders across departments within the business.
  • Design and review system architectures through the development of reference architectures, patterns and principles.
  • Ownership of one or more domains of expertise within the cyber capability map.
  • Works closely with the Cyber Assurance teams on projects, programmes and agile product teams.
  • Represent company cyber architecture on technical governance groups.
  • Contributes to the company's enterprise cyber architecture strategy and roadmap.
  • Stay updated on Emerging Trends: Keep abreast of the latest security technologies, threats, and best practices.
  • Continuously evaluate and recommend security enhancements to adapt to evolving risks and industry standards.

Skills / capabilities

  • Expert understanding of security concepts and can apply them to a technical level, at the highest levels of risk complexity.
  • Stakeholder management with complex stakeholder relationships across the business
  • Develop and maintain cyber architectural artifacts including patterns and reference architectures.
  • Ability to review and produce technical cyber design resources and assets.
  • Effectively translate and accurately communicate security and risk implications to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications / experience

  • Relevant cyber architecture qualifications desirable (CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF).
  • At least 5 years demonstrable experience in developing cyber design/architecture in large enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrable awareness of cyber design/architecture trends.
  • Experience of Web development
  • DevSecOps
  • Threat modelling
  • Secure by design
  • Further the profession, demonstrating and sharing best practice within and outside the organisation.
  • Experience of cyber design in an Agile development cycle.
  • Understanding of aviation systems (desirable).

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