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Principal Cyber Security Architect with SC Clearance required for a well-known government organization.

• Inside IR35, £750 per day
• 6 month contract
• Hybrid role, requiring minimum two days per week in the Glasgow office

This is a strategic role where the successful individual will use their security expertise to develop and maintain solutions that align with the organisation. You will support the improvement of cyber resilience for the organisation and identify key programme and technical risks, leading the design of mitigating security architectures.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Expertise in security architecture and applied security capability. (LEAD)
• Certified to one, more or equivalent: CISSP, GICSP, GRID, SABSA, TOGAF. (LEAD)
• Practitioner in information risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience of working in Cyber Security within Critical Infrastructure.
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with diverse colleagues.
• Have experience in the process of developing and managing a range of options and decisions that aligns with your organizations priorities.
• Develops, plans and delivers work outcomes, including clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics.
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience of the Energy sector.

• Lead projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the whole organisation.
• Ensure the CTO function and teams have a constantly updated repository of best practice resources available to reduce cyber risk whilst transforming towards Secure By Design.
• Leverage a variety of sources to continuously maintain Cyber Reference Architecture with principles, requirements, patterns, anti-patterns, implementation, engineering and operational maintenance options.
• Influence key organisational and architectural decisions, and interact with senior stakeholders across organisations to reach and influence a wide range of people across larger teams and communities.
• To support the team deliverables, that utilise your expertise to ensure successful outcomes across team members and collaborating teams
• Provide clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics in your area of expertise to oversee and co-ordinate successful team outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with other teams to manage interdependencies, risks and resourcing to support portfolio delivery.

If you feel you have the skills required for this role, please send your CV for the attention of ALISON CALDER.