Senior Security Architect

  • Sopra Steria
  • 24/09/2022
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Security Architect to join our Cyber team. As part of our team this will be a perfect opportunity to forge your own way to architect enterprise solutions for our private sector clients.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

If you are an outstanding and highly motivated individual with passion and desire to contribute to the positive reputation of our business, we would love to hear from you!

What you will be doing:
  • Ensuring strong message security and mail hygiene.
  • Security Target Operating Models
  • Endpoint Security
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Information Governance
  • Identifying potential efficiencies and new ways of working
  • Working with and advising the solution architects on the potential security strengths and weaknesses of proposed solutions
  • Designing solutions and demonstrating how to design

What you'll bring:
  • Excellent customer facing skills - able to communicate effectively with staff and clients at all level
  • Conversant with security best practices (including ISO27001) and relevant security legislation.
  • Extensive experience in IT Security, specifically in a management role with a proven track record
  • A real breadth and depth across various areas, no need to be SME an in one vertical

It would be great if you had:
  • Certifications are great but no pre-requisite, but anything cloud related is always good to have - AWS, Azure GCP etc
  • Sec DevOps
  • Off shore team management

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Full time permanent
Location UK mobile
Security Clearance Level SC
Internal Recruiter Priya Jotangia
Salary £90,000 - £100,000
Benefits £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?

Our Specialist Private Sector team are experienced in a range of different markets including Banking, Insurance, Retail, Travel, Transport and Utilities. We help our customers develop, deliver and operationalise their digital transformation strategies. We work in true partnership with our customer, gaining a deep understanding of their business and technology issues.

Our capabilities and credentials across Private Sector markets enable the design, delivery and management of business transformation programmes. We help our clients respond to changing customer demands, keep ahead of the competition, and safeguard their systems from evolving business and technology risks.systems from evolving business and technology risks.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.