Title:                                                     Senior Security Architect

Division:                                              Electrical Engineering

Contract Position based at:                Manchester / Hybrid  - 2/3 days per week on site

UMBRELLA RATE:                                £33.54 / hour

Length of Contract:                               31.3.25 but will be considered for renewal

Position Description:

Senior Security Architect

This role sits within the Offboard Cyber Security Chapter in Manchester, reporting to the Security Engineering Chapter Lead, and would suit those who are technically minded; be that from a cyber security background or those with a software engineering background. This is a senior role in our clients team but there is still plenty of scope to develop. The role would suit someone with a strong technical background in software development wanting to focus on delivering secure systems at scale.

As a Senior Security Architect, you will work in conjunction with solution architects, product owners, technical leads and embedded security champions to identify the security risks associated with our clients products using application security threat modelling. You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify secure architectures, best practices and requirements that enable them to deploy secure systems at scale. 

Job Responsibilities

 Providing consultation to product teams in security architecture and design, and conduct security reviews of new and existing products and services

Working closely with our engineering teams to help them uncover threats in their solutions

Developing and owning architectural solutions that deliver this highest standard of security

Collaborating closely with Solution Architecture team to ensure our systems are secure by design

Working with engineering teams to create threat models

Continual collaboration with stakeholders with a view to being a key part of the product delivery teams' success

Maintaining strong knowledge of current security threats, mitigations, and operational security best practices

Developing and maintaining Security Patterns and Reference Architectures

Supporting the analysis of business requirements and their interpretation into security deliverables?

Essential Requirements

 A strong technical background is required.

Knowledge of cyber security best practices and a good understanding of security threats and controls is also a must. This role is highly collaborative so would suit someone with a desire to work collaboratively across the wider engineering team.

We are looking for a self-starter, keen to work in a highly collaborative manner supporting our engineers and product teams as we deliver a connected data platform for the luxury vehicles of the future.

A background in Software Engineering or Cyber Security, with knowledge of DevSecOps

Familiarity of application security and threat modelling

Experience implementing SDLC process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment; ideally making use of OWASP best practice

Experience within agile delivery frameworks

Experience with large-scale web applications and backend services, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption

Familiarity with of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations?

Solid technical foundation with a business-savvy mindset and an ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into business risks for senior leadership

Ideal Profile

 An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable

An individual, who works independently, is results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.

A passion for continuous technical improvement

An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning

A resilient and enthusiastic who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs

A good communicator with the ability to clearly communicate complex ideas

An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members

The ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style

Additional Information

** THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35 **

Hybrid working: Yes

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