Cybersecurity Architect

Square One Resources; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a skilled Cybersecurity Architect based in Sheffield. The role involves end-to-end solution design and the management of technical risks associated with cybersecurity. An ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of various cybersecurity domains and possess relevant certifications like CISSP or CISM. This position is available on a contract basis, offering up to £537 per day.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cybersecurity domains.
• Excellent risk management and incident response skills.
• Experience in large-scale IT transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end solution design and deliver architecture documents.
• Publish new architecture patterns and key design decisions.
• Ensure technical risks are documented and mitigated.

Skills

Cybersecurity operations

Incident response

Threat management

Identity management

Access management

Data encryption

Network security

Cloud security

CISSP certification

CISM certification

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Cybersecurity Architect

Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office

Salary/Rate: Up to £537 per day inside IR35

Start Date: 06/10/2025

Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Cybersecurity Architect to join their team for an initial contract until the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• You will manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, you will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
• Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements
• Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process
• Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
• Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
• Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
• Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes
• Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation
• Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
• Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change
• Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
• Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessary

Required Skills/Experience

• The ideal candidate will have the following: Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
• Excellent command of cybersecurity organisation practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
• Experience and understanding of both the roles and interlock between enterprise & solution architecture
• Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives
• Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes
• Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
• Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
• Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
• Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
• Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
• CISSP/CISM certification
• SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies