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# Security Solution Architect

- **Company:** SSE plc
- **Location:** Portsmouth, UK
- **Salary:** £58,100.0 - £87,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Cyber Threat Analysis, Cybercrime
- **Published:** June 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=232b56c184929262

## About the Role

Do you have experience in NIST standards?, * Experience translating business requirements into secure solution designs across cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments

 * Strong understanding of security architecture principles, risk management, and common threat landscapes
 * Experience working with recognised security frameworks and standards (e.g. ISO, NIST, NCSC CAF)
 * Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at multiple levels
 * A pragmatic, solution-focused mindset, with a focus on enabling the business securely

## Description

Play a key role in shaping secure digital solutions across a complex, critical national infrastructure environment. You will work at the intersection of business and technology, designing secure architectures that enable innovation while protecting the organisation from evolving cyber threats.

You Will

 * Define security requirements for projects based on business criticality, data sensitivity, and emerging threat landscapes
 * Design and recommend appropriate security controls aligned to enterprise standards, patterns, and regulatory requirements
 * Work with delivery teams to embed security across the full project lifecycle, ensuring solutions are secure by design
 * Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT stakeholders, clearly communicating risks and practical solutions
 * Contribute to the development and evolution of enterprise security architecture, standards, and strategy
 * Collaborate with enterprise architects, engineers, and third parties to ensure alignment with wider IT and security strategy
 * Support continuous improvement by identifying new technologies, risks, and opportunities to enhance security capability


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