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Delivery Team Leader at Square One Resources

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.

You should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders. Additionally, you will provide technical thought leadership and direction to their aligned projects and may stand in as subject matter experts and consultants related programmes.

• 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
• Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues
• 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
• Provides technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise
• Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
• Ability to manage a project team of technical architects, engineers, and/or analysts
• Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessary

Required 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
• Keen understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity
• 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
• Secrets Management: Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
• Experience of designing or implementing Workload Identity Frameworks within large scale enterprises
• Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
• Federated Identity Management: Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM): Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
• Authentication Protocols: Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
• CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate
• SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred
• High proficiency and expertise in Jira for project & tasks management
• Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation and JIRA for task management

If 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.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Information Services
• Financial Services

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