Principal Security Architect

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job Description

Location: Hybrid; with occasional travel expected to client site or Logiq’s offices in Bristol, Chippenham or Exeter.

Salary: Negotiable, plus car allowance, plus up to 10% performance bonus*, plus excellent benefits package.

Logiq is a fast-growing Technology Company, providing cutting-edge solutions to high-risk clients across Private and Public Sector. Due to rapid growth in our Security Capability, we are looking for experienced Security Architects to join our team.

What is Security Architecture?

Security Architecture is the practice of designing the technology, people and processes within computer systems to achieve security goals (Cyber Security Centre).

We are seeking exceptionally capable Security Architects to join the company within the Security Architecture team within the Security Practice. You will be responsible for setting security strategies, guiding teams on security best practices, and ensuring adherence with government security frameworks.

As leading players in MOD’s cyber security transformation to Secure by Design (SbD), we are looking for team members and leaders who share our vision that cyber risk management is driven by business requirements and a holistic view of security that can guide clients to secure solutions that support their business objectives.

Why Join Us?

• Work on impactful projects that drive efficiency and innovation across diverse sectors.
• Access professional development pathways tailored to your career ambitions.
• Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a competitive benefits package.

The Role:

You will have experience of working across system lifecycles and be capable of supporting clients through business-focused requirement specification and definition. You will have a broad experience of technical security, producing technical risk assessments and solution architecture documents.

The ideal candidate will be both experienced and invested in ensuring that our clients' solutions are Secure by Design. To enable this, strong inter-personal skills are essential, e.g. ability to lead workshops, engage with business leaders, and interact with diverse project teams and stakeholders.

With your experience you will be comfortable operating in a ‘customer friend’ type role, supporting the client to develop and deliver secure systems, understanding risks and managing complex system security whilst communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Your experience will include:

• Leading the development of security architecture and design for complex IT requirements, ensuring smooth transition from design to live service. Managing trade-offs based on stakeholder needs and constraints while championing and driving transformation through a clear vision and architecture to lead the delivery journey.
• Enabling delivery through the definition of methodologies, approach, team structure, and supporting technologies that enable successful transformation across an engineering lifecycle.
• Shaping policies, principles and standards, aligning IT transformation to these in an organisational/enterprise context, in order to deliver efficiently.
• Ensuring full lifecycle traceability of stakeholder requirements, supporting project planning with accurate assumptions, and simplifying complexity for senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with TOGAF and Archimate or similar.

What We’re Looking for:

Essential

• Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or another industry recognised cyber security certification.

Desirable

• Full Membership of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) - highly desirable.
• Chartered or Principal status via the UK Cyber Security Council for Secure Systems Architecture.
• NCSC Certified Cyber Professional in Security Architecture.
• IEng or CEng registered with UK Engineering body.
• Chartership through the British Computer Society.
• SABSA Chartered Security Architect.

Other information:

Logiq is committed to investing in people, offering clear progression pathway into our consultancy service, and we will passionately support professional growth to develop our employees.

Flexible working is available including part-time / term time working patterns. All suggestions are welcomed to be discussed as part of a proposed employment package. We are an equal-opportunities employer.

*Bonus payments are discretionary and awarded upon successful completion of probation.