Cybersecurity Architect

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

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Architect. The role involves managing solution designs, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, and working across various cybersecurity domains. Ideal candidates will have CISSP/CISM certification and significant experience in security operations, incident response, and cloud security. This contract position is based in Sheffield with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cybersecurity domains including network, application, and data.
• Broad IT background enabling clear communication with non-security SMEs.
• Experience in large-scale IT transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end solution design and deliver architecture design documents.
• Produce and update end-to-end solution designs in line with requirements.
• Articulate and ensure approval of design deviations and technical risks.
• Translate requirements into solutions meeting customer needs.

Skills

Cybersecurity operations

Incident response

Threat and vulnerability management

Identity and access management

Cryptography

Cloud security

Secure authentication mechanisms

SM tools like HashiCorp Vault

CISSP/CISM certification

Education

CISSP/CISM certification

SABSA or TOGAF certification (preferred)

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 / Objectives

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.
• Translate requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
• Ensure the design of the solutions is efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure 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
• Articulate solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
• 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

How to Apply

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.