Principal Security Architect
Inside IR35
Hybrid, London
Active DV Clearance is advantageous
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic, long-term projects across the organization.
- Define the vision, principles, and strategy for security architecture.
- Recommend security designs for various projects and technologies.
- Maintain deep technical expertise and act as a role model.
- Influence key business and architectural decisions.
- Research and adopt new technologies and methodologies.
- Solve unprecedented issues and share best practices.
Skills Required:
- Analysis: Lead change, monitor technical environment, and influence best practices.
- Communication: Translate and communicate security concepts to senior stakeholders.
- Designing Secure Systems: Lead design and review of complex system architectures.
- Enabling and Informing Risk Based Decisions: Act as a point of escalation and being trusted by Senior risk owners as an expert is Security
- Research and Innovation: Identify new technologies and design the use of these in the business context and contribute to and inform developments on security properties
- Security Technology: Understand and articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future design systems and demonstrating strong knowledge of system architectures
**Sector Experience required:
- Strong cloud Technology Skills and Understanding
- Understanding and knowledge of policing including, including a clear understanding of policing relationships to Government, security and intelligence agencies and legislative process including their governance arrangements
- Experience of working on large scale Business Change and IT enabled Transformation Programmes
- Experience of working in a complex high profile political environment
- Experience of working in Central Government within Central Government Projects
- Must be able to show ability to manage multiple suppliers including large IT Service providers
Skills Experience required:
- Experience in test management of ICT projects within complex stakeholder/business environments
- Proven track record of managing a team
- Experience of working within secure technology-based projects and programmes enabling business change
- Ability to work under pressure and to turn-round communications to meet tight deadlines;
- Ability to manage stakeholders of all levels and deliver their complex business requirements
- Experience of developing and working with audit processes and challenge functions;
- An understanding of the commercial, operational, technical and supply infrastructure in which successful programmes and projects are delivered.
- Experience with government procurement processes.
- Experience of delivering test activities within an agile environment
- A record of successfully supporting and delivering secure national projects on time and on budget in a complex environment which uses both in-house and supplier based delivery method
- Experience and knowledge of the security accreditation processes at a national level at all Government security Classification (GSC) levels.
- Understanding of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Framework (SPF).
- Project management qualification e.g. PRINCE, Safe Agile, APM