Enterprise Cyber Security Architect

• Define and implement security architecture principles across enterprise IT environments.
• Embed secure-by-design controls into business applications, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Lead design assurance across network segmentation, zero-trust architectures, and secure cloud DMZ models.
• Identify architectural gaps within existing enterprise estates and define pragmatic remediation roadmaps.
• Align enterprise security architecture to recognised frameworks and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, and cyber teams to balance availability, compliance, and security.
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud migration and digital transformation programmes.

Technologies:

• API
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• OAuth
• SAML
• Security, We are a large organisation undergoing significant cyber and digital transformation, seeking a Cyber Security Architect focused on securing enterprise IT systems and business applications. This role is part of a dedicated Security Architecture function. We offer 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, flexible leave options, and family-friendly policies, along with a generous employer pension contribution up to 13.5% and employee health assistance programmes. We prioritise employee wellbeing with various support services. This is a permanent position based in the North West of England, requiring candidates to have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

• Proven experience securing enterprise IT environments or complex business systems.
• Strong understanding of hybrid/cloud convergence and securing legacy or brownfield enterprise landscapes.
• Knowledge of recognised enterprise security standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and zero-trust principles.
• Experience designing secure segmentation models (zero-trust, micro-segmentation), next-gen firewalls, and secure remote access solutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise protocols and technologies such as SAML/OAuth, API security, and associated risks in cloud-native environments.
• Experience operating in regulated, business-critical, or high-availability enterprise settings.
• Ability to translate technical risk into clear architectural decisions for engineering and business audiences.
• We welcome candidates from any industry with relevant enterprise architecture or infrastructure architecture experience in energy, utilities, manufacturing, transport, defence, or other industrial sectors.