Cyber Security Architect

Overview

In this role you will join a growing team of security architects within a multinational organization, shaping security for high-profile IT and OT solutions. You will collaborate with solutions and technical architects to define robust security architectures and work with assurance and pen-testing teams to validate controls. You will apply threat modeling, risk-based mitigation, and industry frameworks to deliver secure designs. This is a client-facing, transformation‑oriented opportunity with emphasis on collaboration, communication, and delivering measurable security outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days’ vacation per year
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work
• extensive benefits package
• continual training and upskilling opportunities
• on-the-job learning and development

Responsibilities

• Define security architecture for high-profile solutions across traditional IT, enterprise IT, and operational technology systems
• Collaborate with information assurance and pen-testing teams to validate security controls and propose enhancements
• Apply threat modeling to identify threats and derive security requirements
• Manage security requirements through the delivery and operational life cycle of a system
• Provide specialist security advice for risk- and threat-based mitigation in system designs
• Reference control frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS) for secure architecture and governance
• Implement protective monitoring, authentication and authorization best practices
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and peers; communicate complex ideas clearly; deliver impactful presentations
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving within information technology
• Be flexible to spend time onsite with clients to enable delivery
• Note: prior security architect experience is desirable but not essential

Key requirements

• Strong technical experience in at least one area: IP networking & OT, on-premises architecture and virtualization, cloud platforms and containerization, databases and LLMs, mobile technologies & application security
• Experience with threat modeling techniques to identify security threats and derive requirements
• Experience managing security requirements through system life cycle
• Ability to provide authoritative security advice for risk- and threat-based mitigation
• Familiarity with control frameworks such as NIST, ISO, CIS
• Knowledge of protective monitoring, authentication and authorization best practices
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Critical thinking and problem solving in IT
• Willingness to be onsite with clients as needed
• Previous employment as a Security Architect is desirable but not essential

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Strong presentation abilities
• Security architecture across IT/OT domains
• Threat modeling
• Risk-based security mitigation

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