Cyber Security Architect
Job summary
Join one of the UK's leading healthcare organisations at the forefront of clinical excellence and digital innovation. As a Cyber Security Architect within our eHospital team, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the systems that underpin world-class patient care at Cambridge University Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate cyber security professional to shape and influence how a major NHS Trust protects its digital assets, responds to emerging threats, and ensures compliance with national standards. You will provide expert technical leadership, guide secure design across new and existing systems, and help the organisation stay resilient in a rapidly evolving cyber landscape.
Working alongside technical specialists, clinical teams, and senior leaders, you will make a real impact -- strengthening our cyber posture, supporting patient safety, and contributing to the digital future of a vital healthcare service.
If you want your expertise to directly support care, safety and excellence for thousands of patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a Cyber Security Architect, you will play a key role in ensuring the security and resilience of CUH's digital services. You will:
- Provide expert technical guidance on cyber security across new and existing systems, ensuring compliance with NHS, legal, and national cyber standards.
- Lead the technical assurance of system designs, supplier solutions, and internal services to ensure secure, robust architectures.
- Support the Trust's management of cyber threats, including vulnerability management, incident response, patching oversight, and threat-led risk assessments.
- Deliver and contribute to cyber security projects using recognised project management principles.
- Monitor and report on cyber security risks, incidents, and compliance, providing clear recommendations and mitigation plans.
- Build strong relationships with IT teams, clinical departments, and external partners to raise security awareness and promote best practice.
- Provide specialist advice to inform Trust policies, governance forums, audits, and the national Data Security & Protection Toolkit.
- Represent the Trust in NHS cyber security forums and liaise with national authorities on alerts and emerging threats.
- Contribute to security training and ongoing awareness across the organisation.
About us
Cambridge University Hospitals is one of the UK's leading centres of clinical excellence, research and digital innovation. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud to uphold the Trust values of Safe, Kind and Excellent in all aspects of our work.
As part of the eHospital Technical Architecture function, you will join a team consisting of an Enterprise Architect and a Solution Architect. The team is always busy, highly collaborative, and trusted across the organisation for its diligence, integrity and commitment to help delivering secure, modern and reliable digital services.
You will work closely with clinical, operational and administrative colleagues at every level of the Trust, providing expert advice that helps shape the secure delivery of digital services patients and staff rely on every day. The team is valued for its technical expertise, its practical insights into emerging technologies, and its ability to translate complex concepts into meaningful, safe and effective solutions.
By joining us, you will be part of a fast moving digital programme that plays an important role in supporting excellent care across Cambridge University Hospital. This is a place where your work directly contributes to patient safety, service improvement and the future of healthcare.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipatedstart date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 18th Feb 2026
Interviews date will be communicated to successful applicant.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- 1. General education to degree level, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
- 2. A recognised Cyber Security Qualification
- 3. PRINCE/MSP or other project management qualification
- 4. ITIL qualification (Foundation or Practitioner level).
Experience
- 1. IT and or Cyber Security work experience (to Master's degree or equivalent level)
- 2. Undertaking of a Lead role in relation to Cyber Security for a large organisation
- 3. Experience of delivery of benefits from the implementation of technology systems and or services
- 4. IT support service delivery
- 5. Benchmarking experience
Knowledge
- 1. Awareness of specialist knowledge of cyber security, digital asset protection & recovery processes
- 2. High degree of ability to make complex judgments and solve complex process and analytical problems
- 3. Knowledge of IT cyber security management and compliance in the NHS
- 4. Knowledge of modern infrastructure design patterns, both on-premises or public cloud.
- 5. IT background is at least in part within a health or health-related industry.
- 6. Knowledge of cyber security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, SABSA, OWASP
Skills
- 1. Excellent people management skills and communication skills
- 2. Excellent communication skills - with ability to communicate complex information to large groups of staff and senior executives and clinicians.
- 3. Ability to resolve complex process and analytical problems
- 4. Ability to make decisions based on complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, or comparison of a range of options
- 5. Excellent analytical skills
- 6. Highly developed Cyber Security management skills
- 7. Ability to develop own education and knowledge of emerging or new technologies.
- 8. Sound risk management skills
- 9. Excellent MS Office or similar skills including Excel and Project
- 10. Sound project management skills
Additional Requirements
- 1. The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
- 2. The following hazards are associated with this job role: oManual handling
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB20QQ
Employer's website
https://www.cuh.nhs.uk