Senior Application Security Architect
Posted 3 days ago by Square One Resources
£787 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
City Of Manchester, UK
Summary: The Senior Application Security Architect role involves ensuring the maintenance of a current Security Architecture across key domains within a leading financial services company. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders to implement security capabilities and drive continuous learning in evolving technologies and regulatory trends. The architect will also engage with development teams to ensure adherence to security requirements and provide input on architectural artifacts. This is a contract position with a focus on enhancing cyber security capabilities and addressing design gaps in security projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure there is a current Security Architecture defined and maintained for key domains.
- Ensure there is an architectural vision for all projects with defined component architecture and high-level business processes.
- Ensure architecture artifacts allow for quick responses to regulatory queries and attestations.
- Map security tooling deployed in the estate to the capabilities it implements.
- Review all planned CEP projects for aligned scope and technology/platform strategy.
- Provide input to and take ownership of relevant architectural artifacts produced as part of CEP outcomes.
- Surveil emerging threats and technologies for targeted innovation exercises.
- Produce patterns outlining solutions for common business security needs.
- Validate patterns are adopted by control domain solutions.
- Support Security Consultants on complex engagements and provide necessary architectural artifacts.
Key Skills:
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders for implementation and integration of security capabilities.
- Understanding of evolving technologies, security, and regulatory trends.
- Participation in security architecture reviews and governance.
- Engagement with development teams to ensure adherence to security requirements.
- Able to synthesize key inputs for rapid architectural decisions.
- Identification and tracking of key risks from design choices.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and innovative solutions.
- Focus on quality and security first mentality.
- Strong understanding of cyber-attack methods and defenses.
- In-depth technical knowledge of cyber security and CI/CD methods.
- Knowledge of the cyber security marketplace.
- Proven ability to drive change and provide thought leadership.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £787 per day
City: Knutsford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Job Title: Senior Application Security Architect
Location: Knutsford/hybrid
Salary/Rate: Up to £787 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 16/06/2025
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 Security Architect to join their team for a six-month contract.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
Ensure there is a current Security Architecture defined and maintained for key domains (eg, Endpoint, Cloud, Network, etc.) which clearly outlines the security principles, requirements and capabilities required and how those are instantiated
Ensure there is an architectural vision for all projects that at minimum has a component architecture and high-level business process defined (including the product owner and operational team)
Ensure architecture artifacts allow to us to quickly answer and evidence routine regulatory queries and attestations
Ensure there is a fit for purpose set of Functional and Non-Functional Requirements for project technology deliveries
Map security tooling deployed in the estate (including non-standard environments and non-CISO managed technologies) to the capabilities it implements (not the set of product features - what is actually in use and operationalised)
Review all planned CEP projects have correctly aligned scope and technology/platform strategy
Provide input to and take ownership of relevant architectural artifacts that will be produced as part of CEP outcomes
Surveil emerging threats and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for targeted innovation exercises such Proof of Value evaluations
Produce patterns which outline solutions for commonly occurring business security needs and security service consumption
Validate patterns are adopted by control domain solutions
Support Security Consultants as required on complex engagements and provide architectural artifacts such as patterns and principles where necessary
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to connect dots and achieve implementation and integration of security capabilities across the organisation
Understand, pioneer and drive continuous learning within the team around evolving technologies, security, and regulatory trends in domain area (eg, Data Security, Application Security) and identify new opportunities to advance cyber security capabilities in response to them - always driving an outside-in mentality to learn from best in class
Participate in/contribute to security architecture reviews and governance to identify security design gaps in existing and proposed security projects and recommend approaches to resolve them
Engage with development teams to ensure they understand and adhere to critical security requirements across all business applications and drive developers toward preferred approaches for achieving those requirements when available
Able to synthesize and distil key inputs to make rapid and qualified architectural decisions
Able to identify, log, and track key risks arising because of design choices, where appropriate
Exhibits strong problem-solving capabilities leveraging significant technical knowhow and wider team knowledge
Can find innovative solutions to issues and achieve stakeholder buy-in
Able to instil a focus on quality and security first mentality
Strong understanding of the methods and means of cyber-attacks and how to defend against them
In depth technical knowledge of cyber security and continuous integration/continuous delivery development methods
Knowledge of the cyber security marketplace and how to apply its capabilities to solve cyber challenges
Proven ability to drive change/provide thought leadership
Advanced degree and/or work experience in relevant technical topics
Strong written and spoken communications skills including the ability to develop effective messaging for technical, non-technical, and senior leadership audiences
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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