Lead Enterprise Architect

Role: Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect

Mode Of work: Hybrid work mode 3days Onsite

Type of work : Contract

Location: Sheffield / London

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect to join a growing Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering team. The ideal candidate will play a key role in driving engineering excellence, automation, continuous improvement, and secure integration practices across enterprise environments.

This role requires a highly skilled engineering professional with strong expertise in cybersecurity engineering, DevSecOps practices, enterprise architecture, and engineering transformation initiatives. The candidate should be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams to design scalable solutions, improve engineering standards, and support modernization efforts.

Job Title

Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect

Experience Required

10+ Years

About the Role

The Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering function is responsible for delivering solutions that protect business operations, customers, partners, and employees from evolving cyber threats. The team works closely with engineering and technology groups to implement scalable, adaptive, and secure engineering capabilities.

The Engineering Excellence and Enablement team focuses on improving enterprise engineering standards, automation practices, integration capabilities, and overall engineering maturity across multiple teams.

The selected candidate will contribute to building and enhancing engineering excellence practices while driving improvements in DevSecOps, automation, and service integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and support engineering excellence initiatives across cybersecurity and enterprise engineering teams.
• Drive consistency, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve DevSecOps capabilities and integration processes.
• Design and implement scalable enterprise integration and cybersecurity engineering solutions.
• Partner with stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to modernize existing platforms and services.
• Evaluate and optimize engineering workflows, deployment pipelines, and operational processes.
• Support proof-of-concepts, engineering enhancements, and new feature development.
• Promote engineering best practices and help improve engineering maturity across teams.
• Drive automation initiatives focused on efficiency, quality, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for engineering transformation programs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience in Enterprise Engineering and Solution Architecture.
• Extensive experience of Cybersecurity Engineering principles and practices.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps methodologies and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Strong understanding of automation frameworks and engineering optimization.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, enterprise systems, and infrastructure technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices and secure development lifecycle.
• Ability to work across cross-functional and distributed engineering teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Proven experience driving continuous improvement and engineering transformation initiatives.
• Experience with enterprise-scale environments and integration solutions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in large enterprise or global technology environments.
• Exposure to cybersecurity service integration and platform engineering.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation and orchestration tools.
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and establishing engineering standards.
• Familiarity with Agile and modern engineering delivery methodologies.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cybersecurity and engineering initiatives.
• Exposure to modern engineering practices and transformation programs.
• Collaborative and innovation-driven work environment.
• Career growth opportunities within enterprise technology and cybersecurity domains.
• Opportunity to work with highly skilled engineering and architecture teams.