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# IT Security Architect

- **Company:** ARC IT Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Online Services, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Network Segmentation, Zero Trust Network Access, Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/it-security-architect/57358183

## About the Role

* Currently working as a Security Architect, not transitioning from SecOps or engineering
 * Strong Azure and Microsoft cloud knowledge, including identity, networking, and workload protection
 * Solid IAM background covering federation, SSO, MFA, and privileged access
 * Experience in a regulated environment, either financial services or consultancy with FS clients
 * Proven threat modelling and security design review experience, with the ability to write clear security standards

Strong differentiators:

 * Awareness of AI and LLM security risks (a live priority here, not a futureone)
 * Network segmentation, Zero Trust, and SASE/SSE experience, SABSA certification, This firm moves fast. If you are used to a large architecture team where everyone owns a small slice of a long process, this probably is not the right fit. If you want breadth, real ownership, and the chance to build something properly, it is worth a conversation.
Reference: 57358183

## Description

You will conduct security design reviews end to end, perform threat modelling, author security standards and patterns, and provide architecture consultancy to project teams across the business. You will build deep knowledge of a specific business division while remaining part of a central, shared team. This is not a governance role. You will need to know your technology well enough to have real conversations with engineers and shape solutions, not just review them.


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