Security Architecture and ENGINEERING

Main Purpose of the Role :

The Cyber Security Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing secure architecture standards across the enterprise.

The role ensures that all technology solutions, IT projects, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity tools align with the organization’s security strategy, regulatory expectations, and risk management frameworks.

The Architect acts as the senior security advisor for delivery teams, evaluates new solutions, drives integration of security technologies, and provides SME guidance on core cybersecurity domains and enterprise tools.

Key Responsibilities :

Security Architecture & Design

• Develop, maintain, and publish enterprise security architecture standards, patterns, reference models, and future-state architecture roadmaps.
• Embed security architecture principles across cloud, on-prem, application, data, network, and endpoint environments.
• Review project solution designs and provide approved secure architecture recommendations including cloud security, segmentation, encryption, and monitoring requirements.
• Translate business and technology needs into secure, scalable, compliant, and cost-effective designs.
• Support secure-by-design adoption across projects, platforms, and engineering teams.

Technology Governance & Assurance

Cybersecurity SME – Domain Expertise

Provide deep subject-matter expertise across all core cybersecurity domains and associated security tools / platforms. The role ensures end-to-end architectural coverage, tool alignment, and technical leadership across the following :

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

Documentation & Communication

Skills and Experience :

o Strong secondary-level education is required, ideally to A-level or equivalent standard, in a technical or analytical discipline.

o A university degree is not essential, though a qualification in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Risk Management, or a related field would be considered advantageous.

o 8+ years of experience in cyber security or information security roles.

o Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, frameworks, and best practices.

o Expertise across cybersecurity domains such as cloud, network, endpoint, application, data security, and

monitoring.

o Experience with security tools and platforms for data, endpoint protection and cloud security.

o Knowledge of risk assessment and secure design principles.

o Ability to design secure architectures, review solutions, and provide guidance to technical teams.

Success Measures

o Timely review and approval of project architectures for security compliance.

o Effective integration and optimization of security tools across domains.

o Mitigation of identified risks through architecture guidance.

o Adoption of secure design principles and Zero Trust practices.

o Strong communication skills to translate complex technical concepts to executives, business, and technical teams.

o Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across cross-functional teams.

o Strategic thinking and problem-solving to make risk-based decisions.

o Leadership & mentoring : guiding junior architects and cybersecurity engineers.

o Collaboration skills for working with IT, Cloud, Security Operations, Application, and Project teams.

o Strong analytical skills for evaluating technologies, risks, and architectural trade-offs.

o Security certifications : CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CEH, GCP / Azure / AWS Security Specialty, or any relevant architecture certification.

Desired but not necessary :

Personal Requirements :