Senior SOC Security Architect — Architecture Lead

Energy Jobline CVL; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL in Farnborough seeks a Security Architect – SOC to lead the architecture across SOC platforms, ensuring security by design and future readiness. You will work closely with security engineers, analysts and stakeholders to shape the SOC's evolution and capabilities.

The role requires ownership, senior technical authority, and DV clearance eligibility, with a hybrid pattern of 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.

Qualifications

• Proven Security Architecture experience within a SOC, MSSP or enterprise security environment.
• Strong understanding of SOC operations, detection strategies, tooling, rules and use cases.
• Experience with governance, risk, compliance and assurance.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the security architecture across SOC platforms, integrations and services.
• Lead architecture activities across SOC services and customer environments.
• Produce and review high-level and low-level design documents, security controls and testing requirements.
• Shape detection strategies, including rules, use cases and correlation logic.
• Provide architectural governance for technical changes and new security solutions.
• Act as a technical authority across security designs, blueprints and roadmaps.
• Support SOC maturity, security assurance and accreditation requirements, including CREST.
• Identify opportunities to improve SOC capability through automation, AI and emerging security technologies.
• Translate security requirements into practical solutions with technical teams.

Skills

Security architecture

SOC operations

Detection engineering

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

CREST

Job description

Energy Jobline CVL in Farnborough seeks a Security Architect – SOC to lead the architecture across SOC platforms, ensuring security by design and future readiness. You will work closely with security engineers, analysts and stakeholders to shape the SOC's evolution and capabilities.

The role requires ownership, senior technical authority, and DV clearance eligibility, with a hybrid pattern of 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.