Lead Security Architect - Hybrid (London)

W Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

W Talent in London is seeking a Lead Security Architect to champion a modern security posture across complex financial services environments. The role blends hands-on architecture with governance, strategy, and stakeholder leadership to deliver secure designs and multi-team programs.

You will influence senior stakeholders, translate frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) into actionable roadmaps, and mentor teams in secure-by-design delivery while working in a flexible hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Security architecture strategy and guardrails across projects.
• Secure-by-design delivery incorporating policy and standards.
• Architecture governance with design reviews and signoffs.
• Leadership of virtual or direct teams and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Champion a modern security posture with measurable reduction of attack surface.
• Define and evolve security patterns, principles, standards, and roadmaps.
• Embed controls across discovery, design, build and delivery.
• Act as senior architectural voice for high‑impact initiatives.
• Drive design reviews and governance across the enterprise.
• Collaborate across Technology and business domains to translate strategy into designs.
• Partner with Assurance to land the right controls at right stages.
• Communicate complex security choices clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modelling

Stakeholder leadership

Documentation

Tools

NIST framework

MITRE ATT&CK

ISO 27001

Job description

W Talent in London is seeking a Lead Security Architect to champion a modern security posture across complex financial services environments. The role blends hands-on architecture with governance, strategy, and stakeholder leadership to deliver secure designs and multi-team programs.

You will influence senior stakeholders, translate frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) into actionable roadmaps, and mentor teams in secure-by-design delivery while working in a flexible hybrid setup.