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# Solution Security Architect (18 months FTC)

- **Company:** LegalAndGeneral
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Software Security, Devsecops, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** May 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b8aff18486730b77

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Network security?, * Proven experience as a Solution Security Architect within large, complex organisations, delivering secure and scalable solutions

 * Strong expertise in software security, including secure application design, integration patterns, and secure-by-design principles
 * Deep knowledge of network security, covering segmentation, secure connectivity, and cloud networking across hybrid environments
 * Ability to communicate security risks clearly and pragmatically to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
 * Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams
 * Experience supporting technology simplification, legacy reduction, or platform modernisation initiatives within enterprise environments
 * Strong understanding of regulated environments, ideally within financial services or insurance, with awareness of compliance requirements
 * Familiarity with modern security architecture principles, including zero trust, alongside experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS) and agile or DevSecOps delivery models

## Description

We are seeking a Solutions Security Architect to join Legal & General as part of a major programme of technology simplification and modernisation across the Group. This transformation aims to reduce complexity, enhance resilience, and enable secure digital innovation.

The Project-Based Solutions Security Architect will play a pivotal role within the Group CISO organisation, providing security architecture leadership across key projects and programmes, with a particular focus on simplification initiatives. Reporting to the Group Enterprise Security Architect, this position ensures that security is embedded by design into modern, standardised, and streamlined technology solutions.

Acting as a trusted partner to delivery and change teams, the successful candidate will ensure that all solutions are secure, proportionate, compliant with Group security standards, and aligned with Legal & General's overall risk appetite.

What you'll be doing:

 * Defining and assuring secure, end-to-end solution architectures across technology simplification initiatives, ensuring alignment with Group Enterprise Security Architecture, policies, standards, and reference models
 * Providing expert security input into solution design across applications, infrastructure, networks, and integrations, supported by clear architecture artefacts, including design documentation and decision records
 * Supporting architecture governance processes by delivering robust security assurance, identifying risks, and recommending appropriate, proportionate controls
 * Contributing to large-scale modernisation initiatives, including application rationalisation, platform consolidation, and cloud and network transformation, ensuring security is embedded throughout
 * Identifying, assessing, and managing security risks associated with legacy systems, transition states, and decommissioning activities, safeguarding the organisation's security posture during change
 * Providing strategic guidance on secure software development, including secure-by-design principles, identity and access management, API security, encryption, and DevSecOps integration
 * Defining and assuring secure network and infrastructure architectures across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring resilient, standardised, and secure connectivity across the Group
 * Conducting security design reviews, threat modelling, and risk assessments, communicating risks and mitigation strategies effectively while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organisational risk appetite


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