Principal Security Architect
| Posting date: | 28 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £71,738 to £93,864 per year |
| Additional salary information: | (including allowances) London £75,413 to £93,864, National £71,738 to £91,789. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 403247/7 |
Summary
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
About the role
In DBT our Principal Security Architect is responsible for driving the secure design and development of solutions within the department. They lead the security engagement for all projects ensuring that the department’s security design standards are adhered to.
This challenging role incorporates aspects of security architecture, cyber risk management and cyber security policy. As a Principal Security Architect, you will also provide an ‘out-reach’ to advise on security requirements and solutions to enable technical teams to make security decisions, ensuring the effective use of common tools and products.
You will collaborate across DDaT and wider DBT to identify new opportunities for exploiting emerging technologies and support the development of architectures, patterns and approaches to support their safe use in accordance with the department’s risk appetites. At all times your goal is to help ensure delivery of systems that meet the desired business outcomes with security decisions and controls being proportionate to the risk appetite.
You will build effective partnerships with diverse teams across multiple locations and technologies and effectively communicate security and risk implications across technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will manage the Security Architecture team, covering critical review architecture referencing NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre ) guidelines and to guide and mentor others throughout DBT.
You will:
- Interact with senior stakeholders across the department and influence a wide, diverse group of stakeholders
- Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing problems, justifying and communicating design decisions
- Develop vision, principles, and strategy for security architects for specific projects or technologies
- Work out subtle security needs and understand the impact of decisions, balancing requirements and deciding between approaches
- Produce particular patterns and support quality assurance
- Act as the point of escalation for architects in lower-grade roles
- Lead the technical design of systems and services
- Drive ‘secure by design’ by promoting security as an aspect of quality, ensuring that program, project, and service managers own this responsibility
- Follow developments in the security and technology industry to ensure that the technology landscape is kept secure in line with industry standards
- Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support DBT’s objectives
- Provide specialist advice and recommend approaches, advising on key security-related technologies and assessing the risk associated with proposed changes
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