Senior Security Architect

Posting date:	23 December 2025
Salary:	£57,946 to £83,917 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 January 2026
Location:	B1 2AX
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	441631/1

Summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details.We’re recruiting for two roles in our Health & Disability team and Identity & Trust team.

As our Security Architect, you will use a blend of technical security knowledge, architecture design, and development skills to help secure services used by millions of people against cyber threats.

DWP is a huge and complex organisation. We have unique architectural and security challenges that you won't find in other roles.

This role will involve identity for DWP through online channels.

A CISSP certification or a Master’s degree in Information Security is highly desirable.

The Security Architect will provide guidance, ranging from scoping IT Health Checks, providing guidance in risk assessment, providing security guidance, checking the cloud posture management platform for vulnerabilities.

Projects may involve Online identity and verification, telephone based identity and verification.

DWP is looking to provide a strategic platform that will allow secure and safe communication for its users with its services. This role will provide advice and guidance to either Health & Disability, and Identity & Trust.

The team is made of a few architects and relationships will need to be built with other teams, the security community and the design authority.

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