Lead Security Architect — Hybrid, London

W Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81.000 - 99.000; Vollzeit

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Zusammenfassung

W Talent is seeking a Lead Security Architect for a permanent, London-based hybrid role. You will lead security architecture strategy, govern secure design across multi-teams, and influence senior stakeholders while embedding risk-based controls.

The role requires proven leadership in IT/security architecture with experience delivering secure designs. Expect collaboration with delivery teams and a strong emphasis on governance and documentation.

Qualifikationen

• Broad IT/security architecture experience with secure design delivery.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide engineers/SMEs.
• Knowledge of NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001 frameworks.
• Experience in architecture governance and multi-team programs.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Security architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Frameworks knowledge

Team leadership

Jobbeschreibung

W Talent is seeking a Lead Security Architect for a permanent, London-based hybrid role. You will lead security architecture strategy, govern secure design across multi-teams, and influence senior stakeholders while embedding risk-based controls.

The role requires proven leadership in IT/security architecture with experience delivering secure designs. Expect collaboration with delivery teams and a strong emphasis on governance and documentation.