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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Solution & Security Architect - **Company:** Business For Social Responsibility, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Software System Penetration Testing, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Internet Security, Role-Based Access Control, Technical Debt, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://computerjobs.com/us/en/mob/job/DE2991A08EC92B7494 ## About the Role Essential Experience * Senior experience as a Lead Solution Architect, Lead Security Architect, or equivalent. * Delivery experience on complex digital transformation programmes, ideally ERP replacements. * Experience in UK public-sector or regulated environments. * Proven experience governing supplier-led delivery and challenging senior stakeholders. * Experience resolving complex architectural risks, trade-offs, and exceptions. * Experience leading architects and technical specialists. Essential Knowledge * Enterprise and solution architecture strategy, governance, and assurance. * Security architecture, threat modelling, risk management, and control design. * Non-functional architecture covering performance, scalability, resilience, availability, recovery, observability, and supportability. * IAM, privileged access, RBAC, and segregation of duties. * Cloud, integration, data, and ERP architecture and security patterns. * UK public-sector security, privacy, data protection, records-management, and audit requirements. Essential Skills * Strong architectural assurance and challenge skills. * Clear documentation of architecture decisions, risks, standards, options, and roadmaps. * Effective engagement with suppliers, SMEs, programme leadership, governance, and assurance bodies. * Strong risk identification, mitigation, and decision-making skills. * Ability to balance security, business value, delivery pace, cost, operability, and technical sustainability. * Ability to translate organisational objectives into practical architecture direction and provide professional leadership. ## Description * Own the end-to-end solution and security architecture across business, application, data, integration, technology, and security domains. * Define programme architecture strategy, principles, standards, guardrails, and decision criteria. * Lead assurance of supplier HLDs, LLDs, functional/non-functional designs, security designs, and architecture exceptions. * Provide architecture sign-off at key design, delivery, and readiness gates, escalating material risks and trade-offs. * Own the ERP security architecture and control framework, covering IAM, privileged access, segregation of duties, data protection, integration security, resilience, monitoring, and audit. * Assure compliance with MRA, NCSC, UK public-sector, regulatory, privacy, and records-management requirements. * Review DPIAs, supplier security posture, threat assessments, certifications, control evidence, technical debt, and risk mitigations. * Define and assure penetration testing and vulnerability assessment requirements and acceptance criteria. * Resolve complex cross-domain conflicts, balancing security, business value, delivery, cost, technology, and operability. * Advise programme leadership, governance forums, senior stakeholders, and suppliers, providing clear options, recommendations, and risk advice. * Lead architects and technical specialists, maintaining accountability for architecture outcomes. * Maintain architecture documentation, decisions, risks, exceptions, standards, and assurance artefacts, reporting material issues to the Principal Enterprise Solution Architect. ## Related Videos - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [Resolving technical debts in software architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1680-resolving-technical-debts-in-software-architecture) - [Green Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/592-green-cloud-computing) - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [Cyber Security: Small, and Large!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/259-cyber-security-small-and-large) ## Related Articles - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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