Information Security Architect - Leeds - Hybrid

W Talent; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

W Talent is recruiting for a Lead Security Architect in Leeds with a 50% on-site hybrid model. The role is permanent and offers a salary to £80,000 with good benefits.

You will champion a modern security posture, shape strategy and roadmaps, and deliver secure-by-design solutions across multi-team programmes. Strong leadership, governance, and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Breadth and depth in IT/security architecture with a track record delivering secure designs and steering multiteam programmes.
• Knowledge of well-known Frameworks (e.g., NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) and the ability to apply them pragmatically within delivery.
• Team leadership experience either as a virtual team or direct line management experience.

Responsibilities

• Champion a modern security posture - threat informed and focused on measurable reduction of attack surface.
• Security architecture strategy & guardrails - define and evolve the security patterns, principles, standards, and roadmaps that guide projects and platforms.
• Secure-by-design delivery - partner with solution architects, SMEs and delivery teams to embed controls and use threat-led thinking throughout discovery, design, build, and delivery; ensure designs meet policy and technical standards.
• Act as senior architectural voice for high impact initiatives, aligning security capabilities to business outcomes and risk profiles, and shaping option analysis with clear trade-offs.
• Architecture governance - drive effective design reviews and signoffs; document how solutions interact with the wider enterprise and ensure compliance with our delivery and assurance frameworks.
• Cross-Technology influence - collaborate across Technology and business domains to translate strategy into target designs, balancing resilience with productivity and simplification.
• Partner with our Assurance team to land the right controls at the right stages, ensuring risk is actively surfaced and owned.
• Communicate complex security choices simply - at meetings/workshops, in option papers, and roadmaps that influence senior stakeholders and unblock decisions.
• Breadth and depth in IT/security architecture, with a track record delivering secure designs and steering multiteam programmes.
• Stakeholder leadership- comfortable influencing senior leaders and guiding engineers/SMEs; strong documentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of well-known Frameworks (e.g., NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) and the ability to apply them pragmatically within delivery.
• Team leadership experience either as a virtual team or direct line management experience.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modelling

Stakeholder leadership

Documentation & communication

Governance & standards

Multi-team program leadership

Job description

I am recruiting for a Lead Security Architect for our very well established client within the Financial Services industry.

This position offers a flexible hybrid role, where you will only need to attend site approx. 50% of the time, with flexibility on working hours.

Lead Security Architect

Permanent

Location: Leeds - Hybrid working model - 50% per month flexible

Salary: to £80,000 + Good Benefits

• Champion a modern security posture - threat informed and focused on measurable reduction of attack surface.
• Security architecture strategy & guardrails - define and evolve the security patterns, principles, standards, and roadmaps that guide projects and platforms.
• Secure-by-design delivery - partner with solution architects, SMEs and delivery teams to embed controls and use threat-led thinking throughout discovery, design, build, and delivery; ensure designs meet policy and technical standards.
• Act as senior architectural voice for high impact initiatives, aligning security capabilities to business outcomes and risk profiles, and shaping option analysis with clear trade-offs.
• Architecture governance - drive effective design reviews and signoffs; document how solutions interact with the wider enterprise and ensure compliance with our delivery and assurance frameworks.
• Cross-Technology influence - collaborate across Technology and business domains to translate strategy into target designs, balancing resilience with productivity and simplification.
• Partner with our Assurance team to land the right controls at the right stages, ensuring risk is actively surfaced and owned.
• Communicate complex security choices simply - at meetings/workshops, in option papers, and roadmaps that influence senior stakeholders and unblock decisions.
• Breadth and depth in IT/security architecture, with a track record delivering secure designs and steering multiteam programmes.
• Stakeholder leadership- comfortable influencing senior leaders and guiding engineers/SMEs; strong documentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of well-known Frameworks (e.g., NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) and the ability to apply them pragmatically within delivery.
• Team leadership experience either as a virtual team or direct line management experience.