Managing Security Architect

Sopra Steria; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

25 days annual leave (buy extra days)

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria, within its Aerospace, Defence and Security business, seeks a senior SOC architect to own end-to-end SOC architecture and drive platform evolution with a security-by-design culture.

The role is hybrid, with 2 days per week in Farnborough, and requires eligibility for SC and DV clearance. You will influence detection content standards, governance, and technology roadmaps while collaborating across client security designs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing or owning security architectures within SOC, MSSP or complex security environments.
• Strong understanding of detection engineering and SOC operations.
• Ability to oversee security platforms and integrations holistically.
• Knowledge of governance, compliance and accreditation frameworks such as CREST.
• Experience assuring technical architectures using secure-by-design principles.

Responsibilities

• Owning the SOC architecture, ensuring designs, integrations and operating models meet regulatory and assurance requirements.
• Producing both high- and low-level security control designs, including defining testing requirements.
• Setting and governing standards for detection content, including rules, use cases and correlation logic.
• Acting as the technical authority for client security designs and technology roadmaps.
• Leading SOC maturity initiatives in support of CREST accreditation.
• Identifying and introducing technologies that enhance analyst effectiveness, including automation and AI

Skills

Security architecture design

SOC operations

Detection engineering

Governance & compliance

Secure-by-design

Job description

Ever looked at a SOC and thought, "I'd design that differently"? Here's your chance.

This is your opportunity to take true ownership of our end-to-end SOC architecture - defining how our platforms, detections and controls evolve to meet client, regulatory and business needs. You'll play a key role in influencing how our services grow, introducing new technologies and embedding a strong security-by-design culture across everything we do.

This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week based in Farnborough.

Please note: you must be eligible for SC and DV clearance.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning the SOC architecture, ensuring designs, integrations and operating models meet regulatory and assurance requirements.
• Producing both high- and low-level security control designs, including defining testing requirements.
• Setting and governing standards for detection content, including rules, use cases and correlation logic.
• Acting as the technical authority for client security designs and technology roadmaps.
• Leading SOC maturity initiatives in support of CREST accreditation.
• Identifying and introducing technologies that enhance analyst effectiveness, including automation and AI

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience designing or owning security architectures within SOC, MSSP or complex security environments.
• Strong understanding of detection engineering and SOC operations.
• Ability to oversee security platforms and integrations holistically.
• Knowledge of governance, compliance and accreditation frameworks such as CREST.
• Experience assuring technical architectures using secure-by-design principles.

It would be great if you had:

Existing SC or DV clearance.

Employment Type: Permanent.

Location: Hybrid fixed - 2 days per week in Farnborough.
Security Clearance Level: SC cleared and eligible for DV clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Jane.
Salary: Up to £90,000.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, and pension.

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.