Senior Security Architect
British Business Bank
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Information Technology
Department: IT Infrastructure and Operations
Location: Sheffield
Compensation: £52,500 - £77,500 / year
Description
Senior Security Architect
Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Hours: Full-time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum(Sheffield) /Up to £77,500 per annum (London) depending on experience
Benefits Package
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time), opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution, discretionary bonus scheme
- Flexible working, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology and plenty more
We're seeking a Senior Security Architect to join our Information Security team on a six-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you will help accelerate the adoption of security initiatives across the organisation, ensuring security requirements are embedded into technology solutions and aligned with our policies, standards and regulatory obligations.
You will work closely with technology, operations and business teams to provide architectural guidance across on-premises, cloud and SaaS environments. Your expertise will help shape security designs, support the development of reference architectures and security patterns, and enable effective risk-based decision making.
You'll bring experience of security architecture within complex technology environments, together with a practical understanding of recognised frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK or NCSC guidance. You will be comfortable engaging with a broad range of stakeholders and translating security requirements into clear, practical solutions.
We're looking for someone who enjoys collaboration, approaches challenges with curiosity and pragmatism, and can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience within financial services or another regulated environment would be beneficial, as would knowledge of AI-enabled technologies and their associated security considerations.
A CISSP or TOGAF qualification is essential.
If you're looking for a contract opportunity where you can contribute to meaningful security outcomes and support a forward-thinking organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
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Key Benefits
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
About the company
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As the UK Government’s national economic development bank, our mission is to drive economic growth by helping smaller businesses get the finance they need to start, scale and stay in the UK.
British Business Bank plc is a public limited company registered in England and Wales, registration number 08616013, registered office Steel City House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 2GQ. It is a development bank wholly owned by HM Government. British Business Bank plc and its subsidiaries are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. With the exception of BBB Investment Services Limited they are not authorised or regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority or the Financial Conduct Authority. BBB Investment Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. A complete legal structure chart for the group and details of the programmes operated by the relevant subsidiaries can be found at british-business-bank.co.uk.