Cybersecurity Architect

Job Title: Cybersecurity Architect
Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to £537 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 06/10/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Cybersecurity Architect to join their team for an initial contract until the end of the year.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

You will manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, you will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements
Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process
Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes
Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation
Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change
Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessaryRequired Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud
Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
Excellent command of cybersecurity organisation practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
Experience and understanding of both the roles and interlock between enterprise & solution architecture
Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives
Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes
Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
CISSP/CISM certification
SABSA or TOGAF certified preferredIf you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies