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
THE ROLE
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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- 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
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy.
Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively.
With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals.
As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified).
At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds.
As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
