Security Architect Leader, Digital Platforms & Design

The Scottish Government; Glasgow, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Scottish Government is seeking a Lead Security Architect in the Digital Architecture and Design Division to set security direction for major digital platforms across Scotland. You will influence decisions at senior levels and work with multidisciplinary teams to design secure services at scale.

You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on architectural leadership, embedding security by design and managing risk in a rapidly evolving threat landscape while enabling secure, scalable

Qualifications

• Experience leading security architecture for large digital platforms.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of cloud security, secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the security architecture design of nationally significant digital platforms and services, communicating and justifying key design decisions.
• Own and communicate the security architecture vision, principles and strategy, maintaining standards across programmes.
• Influence senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams on security architecture decisions across projects, programmes and organisations.
• Decipher complex security requirements, balancing risk, usability and delivery needs to implement proportionate controls.
• Lead quality assurance activities and act as the escalation point for security architecture matters.
• Ensure security solutions are aligned with operational security requirements and support cyber threat responses.
• Support secure-by-design delivery practices, including DevSecOps tooling and automation.
• Collaborate across the Digital Directorate to build security capability and adoption of common platforms.
• Contribute to governance and assurance activity, including Technical Design Authority and security design authorities.

Skills

Security architecture

Stakeholder comms

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Job description

The Scottish Government is seeking a Lead Security Architect in the Digital Architecture and Design Division to set security direction for major digital platforms across Scotland. You will influence decisions at senior levels and work with multidisciplinary teams to design secure services at scale.

You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on architectural leadership, embedding security by design and managing risk in a rapidly evolving threat landscape while enabling secure, scalable