Cloud-First Security Architect for Scalable Health Tech

Our Future Health; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

Job summary

Our Future Health is expanding its Information Security team and seeks a Security Architect to shape secure, scalable cloud-first solutions for researchers. You’ll translate risk into business impact, collaborate with squads and engineers, and embed secure-by-design principles from strategy to implementation.

You’ll work to ensure security remains a proactive enabler of growth, partnering across architecture, engineering, and data teams while guiding integrations and design decisions in a

Qualifications

• Extensive experience securely architecting cloud-native systems at both high-level and detailed levels.
• Experience with DevSecOps squads in a total ownership model.
• Experience creating enterprise security architecture artefacts.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Entra, Purview and Azure security services including Key Vault, NSGs, WAF.
• Experience with Kubernetes (Azure Kubernetes Service) and data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Dagster).
• Understanding of security risk management and cloud security controls.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001 and other security standards.
• Exposure to Agile working and ability to translate between technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence the security architecture that underpins our products, platforms, and cloud-first environment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to squads, helping teams make secure and informed technology decisions.
• Partner with engineers to build security into solutions from the outset.
• Work across architecture, engineering, and data teams to solve complex technical challenges and drive alignment.
• Lead threat modelling activities and turn security risks into practical design improvements.
• Help ensure security strategies, controls, and patterns remain effective as the organisation scales.
• Champion secure-by-design thinking and promote consistency across teams and domains.
• Communicate security risks, opportunities, and recommendations to different audiences.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modelling

Translate between tech and non-tech

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Cloud native design

Security strategy

Communication skills

Education

SABSA/CRTSA/CISM/CISSP certifications

Microsoft certifications (MS-500, AZ-500, AZ-700, SC-200, SC-300)

Cloud security standards (ISO 27001)

Tools

Kubernetes (AKS)

Azure security services (Key Vault, NSGs, WAF)

Databricks/Snowflake

Job description

Our Future Health is expanding its Information Security team and seeks a Security Architect to shape secure, scalable cloud-first solutions for researchers. You’ll translate risk into business impact, collaborate with squads and engineers, and embed secure-by-design principles from strategy to implementation.

You’ll work to ensure security remains a proactive enabler of growth, partnering across architecture, engineering, and data teams while guiding integrations and design decisions in a