Head of Security Architecture - DevSecOps - Banking

  • Rothstein Recruitment Ltd
  • 09/10/2025
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Head of Security Architecture - DevSecOps - Banking

Excellent opportunity for a highly experienced security architect with expert knowledge on DevSecOps opens at a leading international bank! This is a great chance to work with newly emerging technologies, whilst collaborating closely with key stakeholders and managing a team through complex projects.

Requirements:

  • Ability to solve complex problems, provide objective and supportive challenge whilst demonstrating security as an enabler
  • Expert knowledge of DevSecOps practices and embedding security into the software development and release life cycles.
  • Ability to rapidly analyse and translate complex technical issues to be understood by audiences at different levels in the organisation
  • Ability to rapidly context switch, support team to decisively tackle design issues and influence at multiple levels
  • Be comfortable and confident to switch between established and emerging technologies
  • Proven ability to translate Group wide policy, Standards and regulatory requirements into architectural processes, patterns and techniques
  • Ability to drive continual and incremental improvement outside of immediate area of responsibility in a respectful way
  • Hands-on experience integrating threat modelling into Security Design
  • Experience of IT & Security in a Financial Services organisation, and an understanding of regulatory requirements
  • Ability to establish facts, develop & document potential solutions and ensure views are aligned with pragmatic transparent risk management
  • Ability to build and deploy Matrix teams empowered to act autonomously but aligned to core methods and controls
  • Take long term strategic ownership of security capabilities within area of responsibility defining and agreeing current and target state and multi-year plans to achieve them
  • Good understanding of IT Risk Management and practical experience applying it to significant Change projects
  • Be able to take responsibility and act autonomously
  • influence decision making to surface and enable resolution of issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders, up to and including senior management/executive

Interested? Please Apply!

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