Senior Enterprise Security Architect & Strategy Lead

Openwork Limited; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £90,000

On target bonus 15%

Pension scheme: Openwork matches 5% +

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service - 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays + up 到

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership is seeking a Security Architecture Lead to provide strategic security architecture leadership across cloud services, APIs, data protection and emerging technologies. You will oversee risk assessments, controls implementation, and engagement with RFI/RFP processes, shaping enterprise security across technology programs.

You'll collaborate with Assurance & Compliance, Security Engineering, and SOC, and influence architecture decisions from strategy through retirement to

Qualifications

• Strong cyber security and architecture skills across risk and change management.
• Experience in cloud and third-party services with security controls.
• Familiarity with Secure SDLC and threat modelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead security solution architecture, perform risk assessments, implement controls, review supplier proposals, and engage in RFI/RFP.
• Collaborate with Assurance & Compliance, Security Engineering and SOC on change management.
• Review security policy queries/escalations and validate changes technically.
• Own Openwork's Enterprise Security Architecture and drive its cross-portfolio adoption.
• Influence lifecycle decisions from strategy to retirement, ensuring security risks and controls are addressed.
• Assess enterprise-wide impacts of architecture decisions on users, services and third-party cloud solutions.
• Define and enforce security architecture principles and standards; drive adoption across teams and partners.

Skills

Cyber security

Solution architecture

Risk management

Cloud & third-party services

IAM / PAM

API security

Secure SDLC

Data security

Stakeholder management

Business partnering

Tools

Veracode

Fortify

WAF

Job description

The Openwork Partnership is seeking a Security Architecture Lead to provide strategic security architecture leadership across cloud services, APIs, data protection and emerging technologies. You will oversee risk assessments, controls implementation, and engagement with RFI/RFP processes, shaping enterprise security across technology programs.

You'll collaborate with Assurance & Compliance, Security Engineering, and SOC, and influence architecture decisions from strategy through retirement to