Senior Manager, Cyber Sec Architecture

Overview

As the Senior Manager, Cyber Security Architecture, you lead a team of Security Architects to embed security across solutions and drive the creation and delivery of security architecture artifacts. You will define global security policy, standards and blueprints, and contribute to future security strategy. You act as a decision-maker on the Cyber Architecture Review Board and oversee security across environments, shaping secure platforms and tooling roadmaps. This role offers impact at scale within Vodafone’s mission to connect people securely and inclusively.

Pay / Benefits

• Discretionary yearly bonus: 20%
• Company car: 580 per month + private fuel or cash alternative
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + carryover options
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks with structured pay
• Private medical family plan: fully paid

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of Cyber Security Architects to embed security into solutions and deliver architecture artifacts
• Define, promote and maintain global security policy, standards, architecture principles, blueprints and guidance across programmes
• Serve as a decision-maker on the Cyber Architecture Review Board
• Oversee security across environments and platforms; define target architectures for cyber tooling; own high-level designs for cyber tooling
• Contribute security requirements to large programmes and lead the development of tooling roadmaps with stakeholders
• Lead threat modelling to proactively apply security controls to systems
• Support RFI/RFP processes with architecture and security requirements

Key requirements

• Knowledge of security and/or enterprise architectural frameworks (e.g., SABSA, TOGAF)
• ICS2 CCSP, CISSP, and/or ISSAP
• CCP in Security Architecture or Risk Management
• Cloud security qualifications (Azure, AWS, Google)
• Experience across DevSecOps and secure SDLC practices
• 5+ years in Cyber Security

• Leadership and people development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Security architecture frameworks (SABSA, TOGAF)
• Threat modelling
• Security policy and standards development

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