Senior SOC Architect — Security Architecture & Innovation

STERIA UK LIMITED; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Sopra Steria in the United Kingdom seeks a seasoned SOC Architect to own end-to-end security architectures and contribute to platform evolutions. You will influence detections, controls, and operating models to meet client and regulatory needs, while embedding security-by-design across services.

The role is hybrid with two days per week in Farnborough, requiring SC clearance eligibility and the potential for DV clearance. You will lead strategic security initiatives and collaborate across teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing or owning security architectures within SOC, MSSP or complex security environments.
• Strong understanding of detection engineering and SOC operations.
• Ability to oversee security platforms and integrations holistically.
• Knowledge of governance, compliance and accreditation frameworks such as CREST.
• Experience assuring technical architectures using secure-by-design principles.

Responsibilities

• Own the SOC architecture and ensure designs and operating models meet regulatory requirements.
• Produce high- and low-level security control designs, including testing requirements.
• Set and govern standards for detection content, rules and correlation logic.
• Act as technical authority for client security designs and technology roadmaps.
• Lead SOC maturity initiatives in support of CREST accreditation.
• Identify and introduce technologies to enhance analyst effectiveness, including automation and AI.

Skills

Security architecture design

SOC operations

Detection engineering

Governance & compliance

Secure-by-design

Job description

Sopra Steria in the United Kingdom seeks a seasoned SOC Architect to own end-to-end security architectures and contribute to platform evolutions. You will influence detections, controls, and operating models to meet client and regulatory needs, while embedding security-by-design across services.

The role is hybrid with two days per week in Farnborough, requiring SC clearance eligibility and the potential for DV clearance. You will lead strategic security initiatives and collaborate across teams.