Remote Cloud Security Architect: Secure-by-Design & Growth

Our Future Health UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary from £90,000 per annum

Generous Pension Scheme - up to 12%

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings 8%

£1,000 Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Central London office in Holborn with:

Job summary

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Security Architect to shape secure cloud-first solutions and guide the design across squads, engineers and data teams. This hands-on role blends enterprise and technical security architecture, translating risk into business conversations and embedding secure-by-design.

You will influence the security posture as we scale to support research initiatives and commercial growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of securely architecting cloud native systems.
• Extensive experience of developing security requirements.
• Experience of working with DevSecOps squads (or similar) in a ‘total ownership' model
• Experience creating enterprise security architecture artefacts
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender suite, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview and Azure security services (e.g. Key Vault, NSGs, WAF, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes (Azure Kubernetes Service) and data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, Dagster)
• Proven understanding of security risk management
• Excellent understanding of common security controls, in particular cloud security controls
• Understanding of threat modelling
• Knowledge of ISO 27001 and other commonly used security standards
• Understanding of modern cloud technologies
• Exposure to Agile working
• Ability to translate between technical and non‑technical teams
• Desire to be part of a small fast‑paced team
• Relevant certifications, such as: SABSA Chartered Security Architect, CREST Registered Technical Security Architect (CRTSA), CISM, CISSP, Microsoft certifications (MS-500, AZ-500, AZ-700, SC-200, SC-300), CompTIA Security+ and Cloud+, Cloud Security Alliance CCSK

Responsibilities

• Influence the security architecture that underpins our products, platforms, and cloud‑first environment
• Act as a trusted advisor to squads, helping teams make secure and informed technology decisions
• Partner with engineers to build security into solutions from the outset, rather than bolting it on later
• Work across architecture, engineering, and data teams to solve complex technical challenges and drive alignment
• Lead threat modelling activities and turn security risks into practical design improvements
• Help ensure our security strategies, controls, and patterns remain effective as our organisation scales
• Champion secure‑by‑design thinking and promote consistency across teams and domains
• Communicate security risks, opportunities, and recommendations to different audiences
• Support strategic Researcher initiatives that deliver value to our researchers and support commercial growth
• Play an active role in evolving our engineering culture and ways of working

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modelling

DevSecOps

Security architecture

ISO 27001

Azure security

Kubernetes

Data security

Communicate risks

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Azure security services

AKS

Databricks

Snowflake

Dagster

Job description

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Security Architect to shape secure cloud-first solutions and guide the design across squads, engineers and data teams. This hands-on role blends enterprise and technical security architecture, translating risk into business conversations and embedding secure-by-design.

You will influence the security posture as we scale to support research initiatives and commercial growth.