Security Solution Architect

Next Careers; Leicester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Security Solution Architect to design secure solutions aligning with their technology strategy. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams to ensure security resilience and compliance while developing reusable security patterns. Ideal candidates will have deep knowledge of enterprise security principles and a strong track record in delivering secure solutions across multi-platform environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing and delivering secure solutions in complex environments.
• Strong expertise in security principles across identity, data, application, and infrastructure.
• Ability to translate requirements and frameworks into practical designs.

Responsibilities

• Design and document secure solutions for key projects.
• Work closely with project teams to embed security by design.
• Develop and promote reusable security patterns and guardrails.

Skills

Enterprise security principles

Solution design

Stakeholder management

DevSecOps practices

Containerisation (Kubernetes / AKS)

Zero Trust models

Tools

AWS

VMware

HTML5

Java

Job description

About the Role

This is a senior role operating across multiple delivery domains to ensure solutions are secure, pragmatic and aligned to NEXT’s architectural direction.

The Security Solution Architect will be responsible for designing and delivering secure, pragmatic and cost-effective solutions that align with NEXT’s technology strategy and security standards. They will ensure all solutions consider security resilience, operability and compliance from the outset while being easy for delivery teams to adopt and operate.

They will act as a trusted representative of the InfoSec function within projects providing clear guidance and options to stakeholders and defining secure best practices when existing standards or patterns do not exist. They will collaborate across Product Engineering Platform and InfoSec domains to ensure solutions are well-integrated and deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and document end-to-end secure solutions for key projects translating security standards into practical implementation guidance.
• Govern delivery against approved designs managing exceptions and documenting architectural decisions and risks.
• Work closely with project and engineering teams to embed security by design into new and existing solutions.
• Define secure best-practice approaches in areas without existing patterns balancing business needs with security principles.
• Develop and promote reusable security patterns reference architectures and guardrails that drive consistency across solutions.
• Contribute to the wider architecture community sharing knowledge and helping to shape standards and future-state designs.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced Architect with deep knowledge of enterprise security principles and a pragmatic approach to solution design. You’ll be confident engaging at all levels of the organisation balancing business priorities with technical excellence and influencing outcomes through collaboration.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience designing and delivering secure solutions in complex multi-platform environments (on‑premise hybrid and Azure cloud).
• Strong expertise in security principles across identity, data, application and infrastructure domains.
• Ability to translate requirements and frameworks (e.g. NIST, ISO 27001) into practical consumable designs.
• Experience embedding controls for authentication, encryption, monitoring and recovery within solution architectures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence decisions at all levels.
• Familiarity with modern practices such as DevSecOps, containerisation (Kubernetes / AKS) and Zero Trust models would be highly advantageous.

Key Skills Business Process, VMware, Cloud, HTML5, Windows, Project management, AWS, Infrastructure, Web Services, jQuery, Java, Computer Engineering, Solutions design, Technical Solutions, Analytics

Employment Type Full-Time

Experience years

Vacancy 1