Security Architect- 12 Month Contract- Inside IR35- Hybris in Multiple UK Locations

Summary: The Security Architect role is a 12-month hybrid contract based in multiple UK locations, including Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Bristol. The position focuses on providing enterprise architecture capabilities across various business domains, particularly emphasizing GCP and Azure environments. The architect will shape solution designs and maintain coherence across delivery and engineering teams. This role requires collaboration with stakeholders to ensure architectural integrity and governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce high-level architecture and technology roadmaps across hybrid cloud environments, with a focus on GCP-native services and Azure integration patterns, working towards Architecture as Code principles
• Provide architectural guidance on GCP platform design including hosting architecture, API-led and event-driven integration patterns, and non-functional requirements covering security, resilience, and availability
• Embedded within programme workstreams, collaborating with workstream leads to drive scope, requirements, and architecture and design roadmaps across multiple business domains
• Deliver solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade-off analysis across GCP and Azure platforms
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to maintain architectural coherence, define tooling strategy and data delivery patterns, and contribute to architecture governance and guardrails

Key Skills:

• Strong enterprise architecture skills with hands-on GCP experience - including GCP-native services, cloud hosting, networking, security, and data platform design - with supporting Azure knowledge
• Experience with API-led and event-driven integration patterns, composability concepts, and Architecture as Code practices across hybrid cloud environments
• Ability to work across multiple business domains (Insurance, Consumer, Commercial, Data & AI) with an understanding of modern delivery practices and engineering team engagement
• Familiarity with Data & AI, Machine Learning, and Agentic AI architectures on GCP (eg Vertex AI, BigQuery), with awareness of equivalent Azure services
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience producing and presenting architectural artefacts, roadmaps, and architecture decision records to senior audiences - desirable: knowledge of banking, payments, or regulated industry domains

Salary (Rate): £600 per day

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Role Overview

We are looking for a Security Architect to join on a 12-month hybrid contract across multiple UK locations - Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, or Bristol (2 days on-site). The role provides enterprise architecture capability across multiple business domains including Insurance, Consumer, Commercial, and Data & AI, shaping end-to-end solution designs, roadmaps, and architectural artefacts while maintaining coherence across delivery and engineering teams - with a primary focus on GCP and supporting Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce high-level architecture and technology roadmaps across hybrid cloud environments, with a focus on GCP-native services and Azure integration patterns, working towards Architecture as Code principles
• Provide architectural guidance on GCP platform design including hosting architecture, API-led and event-driven integration patterns, and non-functional requirements covering security, resilience, and availability
• Embedded within programme workstreams, collaborating with workstream leads to drive scope, requirements, and architecture and design roadmaps across multiple business domains
• Deliver solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade-off analysis across GCP and Azure platforms
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to maintain architectural coherence, define tooling strategy and data delivery patterns, and contribute to architecture governance and guardrails

Main Skills Required:

• Strong enterprise architecture skills with hands-on GCP experience - including GCP-native services, cloud hosting, networking, security, and data platform design - with supporting Azure knowledge
• Experience with API-led and event-driven integration patterns, composability concepts, and Architecture as Code practices across hybrid cloud environments
• Ability to work across multiple business domains (Insurance, Consumer, Commercial, Data & AI) with an understanding of modern delivery practices and engineering team engagement
• Familiarity with Data & AI, Machine Learning, and Agentic AI architectures on GCP (eg Vertex AI, BigQuery), with awareness of equivalent Azure services
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience producing and presenting architectural artefacts, roadmaps, and architecture decision records to senior audiences - desirable: knowledge of banking, payments, or regulated industry domains