Principal Security Architect

Ofgem; London; Hybrid; GBP 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Ofgem seeks a Principal Security Architect to lead the safeguarding of their digital infrastructure against cyber threats. This permanent role will involve shaping strategic security frameworks and collaborating with key stakeholders to enhance Ofgem's cybersecurity posture, impacting millions by ensuring a secure energy future.

Benefits

30 days annual leave after 2 years

Flexible working arrangements

Excellent training and development opportunities

Civil Service pension scheme

Qualifications

• Expertise in security architecture and applied security capability.
• Experience in Cyber Security within Critical National Infrastructure.
• Proven track record of influencing complex programmes and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects with high strategic impact on security architecture.
• Create security expectations and communicate them effectively to stakeholders.
• Influence organisational and architectural decisions for security strategies.

Skills

Security architecture

Cybersecurity strategy

Communication

Education

CISSP certification

GICSP certification

TOGAF certification

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At the forefront of the fight to protect energy consumers, Ofgem is strengthening its internal defences - because safeguarding our systems against cyber threats is vital to delivering our mission. We’re looking for a Principal Cyber Security Architect to join us and lead the charge in shaping secure, resilient digital systems at the heart of our organisation.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. Our primary responsibility is to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable, while at the same time working with government, industry and consumer groups to deliver a clean, more affordable and secure net-zero energy system at the lowest cost to consumers and drive economic growth..

We’re offering a permanent role where you’ll apply your security architecture expertise to projects with strategic impact, influencing decisions at the highest level. This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference by helping us transform our technology landscape while reducing cyber risk across the organisation. Your work will ensure we stay secure by design, resilient by default, and consistently prepared for evolving threats.

You’ll work at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with internal stakeholders and leading national security partners to embed robust security into every stage of the digital lifecycle. As a recognised expert, you’ll play a central role in building long-term cyber strategies and providing guidance that sets standards across our organisation and the wider energy ecosystem.

We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of security architecture and a proven track record of influencing complex programmes and senior leaders. Your approach to solving challenges will be methodical and strategic, and you’ll be comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-stakes environments where your guidance truly matters.

In return, you’ll join a collaborative and inclusive culture that values innovation and supports development. You’ll benefit from flexible working arrangements, excellent civil service benefits, and the opportunity to be part of a high-profile mission that impacts millions of people and the UK’s energy future.

We have a critical purpose to lead the development of secure digital systems and architecture within our organisation, combating cyber threats and strengthening resilience across the UK’s energy landscape through trusted design, strategic leadership, and expert guidance.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the whole organisation.

• Ensure the CTO function and teams have a constantly updated repository of best practice resources available to reduce cyber risk whilst transforming towards Secure By Design
• Review and assess threats affecting the market, based on effective partnerships with the Security, Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies, other Regulators and energy sector partners.
• Leverage a variety of sources to continuously maintain Ofgem Cyber Reference Architecture with principles, requirements, patterns, anti-patterns, implementation, engineering and operational maintenance options.
• Influence key organisational and architectural decisions, and interact with senior stakeholders across organisations to reach and influence a wide range of people across larger teams and communities.

To support the team deliverables, that utilise your expertise to ensure successful outcomes across team members and collaborating teams

• Provide clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics in your area of expertise to oversee and co-ordinate successful team outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with other teams to manage interdependencies, risks and resourcing to support portfolio delivery.
• Where required, be jointly responsible with the PDL on welfare and pastoral care of all colleagues.
• Demonstrate effective diversity and inclusive team management within their team and the wider organisation.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Use applied security expertise to develop and maintain solutions that align with Ofgem Cyber guidance, to support the improvement of cyber resilience for the organisation.
• Use applied security expertise to identify key programme and technical risks, leading the design of mitigating security architectures.
• Create and clearly communicate security expectations to industry, providing expert guidance to operators on interpreting such statements into meaningful and appropriate security requirements.
• Document expert cyber architecture design reviews of operator system architectures to identify security weaknesses and recommend mitigations.
• Identify and Document Cyber Risks within the Secure By Design lifecycle.
• Provide expert advice on security architecture implications of technological trends when applied to existing systems how innovative technologies change the security approach required.
• Effectively communicate difficult risk and security concepts in accessible ways that can be clearly understood by business leaders. Contribute to and develops risk communication strategies.
• Attend, lead and provide expert input to Specialist Interest Groups to share security best practice across the sector.
• Follow a methodical and repeatable approach to reviewing the security of a system architecture and describe that approach.
• Contributes to new and innovative security architecture guidance for others to re-use.

Person specification

Role Criteria

• Expertise in security architecture and applied security capability. (LEAD)
• Certified to one, more or equivalent: CISSP, GICSP, GRID, SABSA, TOGAF. (LEAD)
• Experience of working in Cyber Security within Critical National Infrastructure.
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with diverse colleagues.
• Have experience in the process of developing and managing a range of options and decisions that aligns with your organisation’s priorities.
• Develops, plans and delivers work outcomes, including clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics.
• Able to achieve and maintain SC clearance.
• Experience of working in Energy Sector

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.

Alongside your salary of £61,446, OFGEM contributes £17,800 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working, flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Things you need to know

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), and upload a copy of your CV anonymising all details where necessary.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.

Click 'apply now' to be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website to apply to for the role. The deadline for applications is 23:55 on Monday 7th July.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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