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Enterprise Security Architect / Central Scotland or UK Based, London

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

Job Description:

Are you a Security Architect looking for a new challenge?

Are you looking to work at an enterprise level and contribute to the overarching enterprise architecture roadmap that will shape the organization in years to come?

You will be working with a global organization that is in the midst of a large transformation program aimed at delivering operational excellence across key business areas and moving functional services to a global business services model.

As the Enterprise Security Architect, you will develop and maintain security architecture processes, patterns, and artifacts for creating and implementing secure solutions, including drafting security procedures for executive approval. You will collaborate with tech teams to establish baseline security standards for operating systems, network segmentation, IAM, data encryption, and conduct threat modeling for services and applications.

To excel in this role, you should have strong knowledge and experience across the IT infrastructure stack, current hands-on experience with security patterns, securing public cloud applications, and a good understanding of various security tools available.

Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA, TOGAF, CISM are highly advantageous.

In return, you will receive an annual base salary of up to £95k plus a bonus of up to £17k per annum, along with benefits.

Although headquartered in Scotland, the client will consider candidates from across the UK, provided they are willing to travel to Scotland occasionally.

If interested, please apply and contact us for a confidential chat.


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