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10+ Years of Relevant Experience

Security Solution Architects manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents aligned with business requirements, strategies, standards, and patterns.
They also:

• Create high-level designs
• Publish architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, technical risks and issues
• Present solutions at design authorities and to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Provide technical thought leadership
• Act as consultants across a wider programme portfolio

Principal Preferred Requirements

Cybersecurity Expertise

• Significant experience in security solution architecture
• Experience conducting and driving RFIs/RFPs and vendor assessments
• Familiarity with governance, risk and compliance frameworks, including:
  NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, GDPR, ISF SOGP

Experience with:

• Graph databases and data lineage (document deconstruction and contextual mapping)
• Designing AI/ML platform architectures (experience with RAG + generative AI on documents/graph DBs is a plus)
• Strong general IT background; able to effectively communicate with non-security SMEs

Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• CISSP, CISM, or another recognized cybersecurity certification

Platform & Technology

• Experience with architecture tools: BizzDesign, Archi, or UML-based tools
• Working proficiency in:
  • Jira (project/task management)
  • Confluence (documentation)

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs as per business needs and reference architecture
• Publish and manage key design decision records
• Document and secure approval for design deviations and related technical debt
• Record and mitigate technical risks or issues related to solution design
• Translate requirements into architecture ensuring alignment with business outcomes
• Deliver efficient, timely, cost-effective solution designs across project lifecycle
• Maintain awareness of both business drivers and technical security priorities
• Encourage strong documentation practices

Governance

• Ensure all architecture artefacts (designs, patterns, deviations, risks) pass through formal governance
• Facilitate peer reviews and approvals for all designs before presenting to authorities
• Present artefacts at design authorities for feedback and sign-off

Risk and Dependency Management

• Identify and escalate technical and project risks/issues
• Recommend and document remediation plans
• Link design decisions to technical risk and articulate potential impacts

Leadership & Teamwork

• Act as the technical lead within the programmer
• Deliver technical thought leadership
• Maintain strong stakeholder communication (executives, project teams, SMEs)
• Serve as cybersecurity SME across broader IT initiatives