Cybersecurity Architect

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.

• 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
• 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
• Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
• 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
• 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
• Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
• Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
• Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
• Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
• Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
• CISSP/CISM certification
• SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred

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.