Security Architect
Posted 1 week ago by Venturi
£800 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Security Architect role is a fully remote, 6-month contract position focused on supporting a Strategic Cybersecurity Programme within a financial services organization. The position involves end-to-end security architecture ownership, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory obligations while collaborating with various stakeholders. The role requires a strong background in delivering complex cybersecurity solutions and a deep understanding of financial services risk and regulatory frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end security architecture for large-scale cybersecurity initiatives within financial services
- Produce high-quality architectural artefacts from conceptual and logical designs through to detailed solution architecture
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security strategy, regulatory obligations and business objectives
- Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams, resolving technical dependencies, risks and design challenges
- Work closely with product teams, security, risk, and engineering to ensure secure, resilient and cost-effective solutions
- Perform architecture assurance and governance, reviewing designs and deliverables from internal teams and third-party suppliers
- Contribute to Information Security, Digital and Data strategies, ensuring designs support future-state capabilities
- Identify opportunities for security-led innovation, balancing new technologies with enterprise standards and roadmaps
- Stay current with cybersecurity trends and threats, translating insight into pragmatic, deliverable architecture
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Security Architect delivering complex cyber solutions in financial services
- Strong delivery background across domains such as IAM, Threat Detection & Response, Attack Surface Management, Infrastructure Security and Data Protection
- Hands-on experience designing security solutions in AWS environments
- End-to-end delivery experience across multi-technology programmes and projects
- Strong understanding of financial services risk, regulatory and control frameworks
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels
- Solid architectural foundation using TOGAF, UML, and agile delivery methodologies
- Commercial awareness, including solution costing, vendor engagement and procurement frameworks
- Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development and engagement with cybersecurity best practice
Salary (Rate): £800 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Security Architect – Financial Services
Contract details
Fully remote (UK-based)
6-month contract (extension likely)
Outside IR35
£800 per day
We’re seeking an experienced Security Architect to support a major Strategic Cybersecurity Programme within a financial services organisation.
This role sits within Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, providing end-to-end security architecture ownership across complex, business-critical initiatives in a highly regulated environment.
You’ll be responsible for shaping, governing and assuring cybersecurity solutions from early concept through to delivery and realised business outcomes, working closely with senior technology, security, risk and product stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing
- Own the end-to-end security architecture for large-scale cybersecurity initiatives within financial services
- Produce high-quality architectural artefacts from conceptual and logical designs through to detailed solution architecture
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security strategy, regulatory obligations and business objectives
- Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams, resolving technical dependencies, risks and design challenges
- Work closely with product teams, security, risk, and engineering to ensure secure, resilient and cost-effective solutions
- Perform architecture assurance and governance, reviewing designs and deliverables from internal teams and third-party suppliers
- Contribute to Information Security, Digital and Data strategies, ensuring designs support future-state capabilities
- Identify opportunities for security-led innovation, balancing new technologies with enterprise standards and roadmaps
- Stay current with cybersecurity trends and threats, translating insight into pragmatic, deliverable architecture
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience as a Security Architect delivering complex cyber solutions in financial services
- Strong delivery background across domains such as IAM, Threat Detection & Response, Attack Surface Management, Infrastructure Security and Data Protection
- Hands-on experience designing security solutions in AWS environments
- End-to-end delivery experience across multi-technology programmes and projects
- Strong understanding of financial services risk, regulatory and control frameworks
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels
- Solid architectural foundation using TOGAF, UML, and agile delivery methodologies
- Commercial awareness, including solution costing, vendor engagement and procurement frameworks
- Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development and engagement with cybersecurity best practice