Cloud-First Security Architect: Secure-by-Design Leader

Our Future Health; England; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary from £90,000 per annum

Generous Pension Scheme - up to 12%

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings up to 8%

£1,000 Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Central London office in Holborn with柔

Job summary

Our Future Health is expanding its Information Security team. We seek a Security Architect to shape secure architecture across the organisation, guiding integrations and design decisions while embedding secure-by-design principles from strategy to implementation.

You’ll influence cloud-native security, partner with engineers, and translate risks into business conversations, enabling growth and protecting critical health data.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience securely architecting cloud-native systems, both high-level and in detail.
• Extensive experience developing security requirements.
• 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.
• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Dagster).
• Understanding of security risk management and cloud security controls.
• Understanding of threat modelling and ISO 27001 standards.
• Exposure to Agile working and cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences; security evangelism.

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 technology decisions.
• Partner with engineers to embed security from the outset, not bolted on later.
• Collaborate across architecture, engineering and data teams to resolve complex challenges.
• Lead threat modelling activities and translate risks into practical design improvements.
• Ensure security strategies, controls and patterns scale with the organisation.
• Champion secure-by-design thinking across multiple teams and domains.
• Communicate security risks and recommendations to diverse audiences.
• Support Researcher initiatives that drive value and growth.
• Contribute to evolving engineering culture towards safer, scalable ways of working.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modelling

DevSecOps

Security architecture

ISO 27001

Azure security

Kubernetes

Communication

Security controls

Risk management

Job description

Our Future Health is expanding its Information Security team. We seek a Security Architect to shape secure architecture across the organisation, guiding integrations and design decisions while embedding secure-by-design principles from strategy to implementation.

You’ll influence cloud-native security, partner with engineers, and translate risks into business conversations, enabling growth and protecting critical health data.