Strategic Security Architect - Drive Secure-by-Design

Michael Page; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking a Security Architect to shape cybersecurity architecture across a global enterprise, delivering high-visibility initiatives and driving strategic security programs in a multicultural environment.

You will develop target architectures, perform threat modelling, and provide risk-based guidance to engineering, infrastructure and app teams, ensuring secure-by-design principles and alignment with security standards while supporting continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of security architectures, including target states, transition plans and roadmaps aligned to business objectives, IT strategy and security risk appetite.
• Provide risk-based security architecture guidance to engineering, infrastructure, application, architecture, project and business teams.
• Review solution, application, infrastructure and integration designs to ensure secure-by-design principles, appropriate technology selection and alignment with PageGroup security policies and standards.
• Support security architecture activities across BAU services, projects, programmes and material change initiatives, ensuring security requirements are identified, designed, implemented and governed.
• Perform threat modelling, threat analysis and architecture risk assessments to identify threats, attack paths, vulnerabilities, security weaknesses and appropriate mitigating controls.
• Define, document and maintain security requirements, control specifications, architectural patterns, standards, baselines and implementation guidance, ensuring alignment with business risk appetite and applicable security standards.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and implementation assurance activities to validate that agreed security controls and requirements have been effectively implemented.
• Review remediation plans and support the closure of security findings, defects and design issues.
• Participate in architecture governance forums, change reviews and security assurance activities, providing advice on security risks and compliance with security standards.
• Conduct independent security reviews and produce technical reports, recommendations and supporting documentation, including working with third parties where required.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, threats and security trends, recommending updates to standards, controls and guidance where appropriate.
• Support continuous improvement activities that strengthen the security posture of existing technology platforms and services.

Job description

Michael Page is seeking a Security Architect to shape cybersecurity architecture across a global enterprise, delivering high-visibility initiatives and driving strategic security programs in a multicultural environment.

You will develop target architectures, perform threat modelling, and provide risk-based guidance to engineering, infrastructure and app teams, ensuring secure-by-design principles and alignment with security standards while supporting continuous improvement.