Technical Security Consultant

Technical Security Consultant (Manager)

💰 £500/day (Inside IR35) | 📅 4-Month Contract

📍 Watford (2 days onsite)

🚆 Ad-hoc travel to London, Birmingham, and other UK office locations

Our client is seeking an experienced Technical Security Consultant (Manager level) to join a specialist Security Consultancy function supporting enterprise-wide digital transformation and secure technology innovation initiatives. This role focuses on providing technical security leadership across modern digital platforms, cloud-native solutions, AI/GenAI capabilities, and enterprise architecture programmes. You’ll work closely with engineering, architecture, product, and business teams to ensure secure-by-design principles are embedded across the full solution lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical security consultancy and leadership across digital solutions and enterprise platforms
• Collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with security requirements and best practices
• Conduct architecture and design reviews to support secure solution delivery
• Perform threat modelling activities and provide risk-based security recommendations
• Advise on secure adoption of AI/GenAI technologies including:
• Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Copilot Studio
• LLM integrations
• AI security guardrails and misuse prevention
• Support secure-by-design adoption across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise platforms
• Define and scope security testing requirements for new systems and products
• Conduct post-deployment security architecture reviews
• Support development of secure coding guidance, security patterns, and security standards documentation
• Contribute to solution architecture activities for security-focused initiatives including IAM and AI security
• Collaborate with governance, change management, and design authority functions
• Promote security awareness, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives

Required Skills & Experience

Core Security & Architecture Experience

• Prior experience in one or more of the following:
• Infrastructure/Solution Architecture
• Technical Security Architecture or Consulting
• Security Operations
• Secure Application Development
• Strong understanding of application, cloud, SaaS, and enterprise security concepts and best practices
• Experience working within Agile and DevOps delivery environments
• Hands-on experience using threat modelling within enterprise programmes

Experience securing digital products and enterprise solutions across one or more of the following areas:

• AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Google Gemini
• Azure OpenAI Service, Google Vertex AI, AWS, Microsoft Azure / M365
• Google Cloud, ServiceNow, SAP
• Networks, firewalls, routers, switches, LAN/WAN, SDN
• Windows, Linux, Apple, and Android operating systems
• Security technologies such as:
• Microsoft Entra ID
• CyberArk
• SailPoint
• Threat modelling platforms
• Excellent stakeholder communication and consulting capability
• Ability to explain technical security concepts to different audiences

Desirable Experience

• AI/GenAI threat modelling and AI security governance
• Container and serverless security
• Infrastructure and network security
• Secure application development and testing practices
• Experience within regulated or customer-facing environments
• Security certifications such as:
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• Certified Cloud Security Professional
• AWS / Azure / Google security certifications

Please apply with your CV and we'll be in touch. Thank you!