Cyber Security Architect

• Lead the architecture of complex cyber security solutions across multiple projects and technical areas.
• Shape early-stage concepts, helping teams turn business needs into practical, secure technology solutions.
• Act as a design authority, providing governance and assurance across architecture, security standards and technical decisions.
• Work closely with enterprise and solution architects, business stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure solutions are joined up and scalable.
• Define and maintain architecture patterns, standards, models and supporting documentation across the cyber security domain.
• Guide technology selection, balancing security, functionality, cost and long-term sustainability.
• Oversee integration with existing platforms and systems, ensuring solutions contribute to a coherent wider technology landscape.
• Support strategic planning by bringing cyber security architecture into business cases, requirements and key initiatives.
• Mentor architects and technical leads, helping strengthen architectural capability and best practice across delivery teams.
• Keep sight of emerging technologies and assess where they could add value to the organisation.

• Extensive experience in Cyber Security architecture across complex, multi-system environments.
• Strong solution architecture experience, with the ability to lead design across multiple programmes or initiatives.
• Proven experience defining and managing technical requirements and navigating competing stakeholder priorities.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, cloud platforms and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience leading architectural governance and influencing technical direction at programme level.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to work across technical and business audiences.
• Experience with Teamcenter and PLM
• Experience developing architecture models, standards, roadmaps and design practices.
• Ability to mentor technical teams and embed secure architecture principles into delivery.
• Relevant cyber security or architecture certifications would be beneficial, including CISSP, TOGAF or BCS Enterprise/Solutions Architecture qualifications.

What’s in It for You:

• A senior technical role with genuine influence over cyber security and technology direction.
• The chance to shape architecture across complex, high-profile initiatives rather than working within a single project.
• Hybrid working across Derby, Manchester or Warrington.
• The opportunity to develop architectural capability across wider delivery teams and make a lasting impact on how cyber security is delivered.