Security Architect — Drive Secure, Cloud‑Native, Scalable Designs

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking a Security Architect to lead secure architecture design across large-scale digital services used by millions. You will guide secure-by-design approaches, collaborate with agile teams, and produce artefacts that support governance and secure engineering practices.

You'll influence senior stakeholders, shape architecture standards, and mentor colleagues to grow organisational security capability within the Corporate Centre Services function.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Security Architect in complex, large-scale digital or government environments.
• Strong understanding of secure-by-design principles and enterprise architecture.
• Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams delivering user-centric services.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex security concepts.
• Shaping architecture standards, roadmaps and governance frameworks.
• Mentoring others and developing organisational capability.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and delivery of secure architectures with security controls embedded from the outset of product development.
• Developing secure solution options during discovery and inception to inform design decisions.
• Collaborating with Solution Architects and agile teams to produce secure, value-for-money designs aligned to user needs.
• Creating security architecture artefacts and documentation to support governance and secure engineering practices.
• Ensuring designs comply with the Digital Blueprint, EA standards, and product roadmaps.
• Providing expert security guidance across the full product lifecycle, including assurance activities.
• Owning and evolving security product roadmaps and contributing to reusable security patterns.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud-native security

Agile teams collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Governance & roadmaps

Job description

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking a Security Architect to lead secure architecture design across large-scale digital services used by millions. You will guide secure-by-design approaches, collaborate with agile teams, and produce artefacts that support governance and secure engineering practices.

You'll influence senior stakeholders, shape architecture standards, and mentor colleagues to grow organisational security capability within the Corporate Centre Services function.