Lead Security Architect

Job Title: Lead Security Architect

Location: Remote with occasional travel to London
Duration: 12-Month Contract
Clearance: BPSS Required

Overview

We are supporting a major UK-based digital transformation programme seeking an experienced Lead Security Architect to provide leadership across enterprise security architecture.

This role will play a critical part in shaping secure system design, embedding security principles across delivery, and ensuring robust, scalable solutions in a complex, large-scale environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the security architecture and design of systems and services across a large digital estate
• Develop, maintain, and review secure architecture patterns, standards, and principles
• Ensure security requirements are embedded throughout the solution lifecycle
• Engage with senior stakeholders to communicate security risks, trade-offs, and design decisions
• Assess and provide guidance on complex and high-impact security risks
• Contribute to enterprise architecture decisions, security strategy, and transformation initiatives
• Research, evaluate, and apply emerging security technologies and innovative solutions
• Act as a technical escalation point for architects and engineering teams
• Support governance activities, including quality assurance of architecture deliverables
• Promote and influence security best practices across technical and non-technical teams

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience operating as a Security Architect or Enterprise Architect within large, complex environments
• Strong capability in designing and reviewing secure systems at scale
• Demonstrable experience managing and articulating complex security risks
• Deep understanding of modern security architecture, principles, and technologies
• Experience working on cloud-based or large-scale transformation programmes
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within public sector or healthcare environments
• Knowledge of UK government or industry security standards and frameworks
• Exposure to enterprise-level security strategy and governance
• Experience contributing to or working within large-scale digital transformation programmes

Additional Information

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a high-impact programme, contributing to the delivery of secure, scalable digital services while working alongside senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.

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