Senior Security Architect
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Contract
- £625 per day
Job Description:
Role: Senior Security Architect
Location: London - needs to be onsite Wednesday and Friday
Duration: 6 month contract
Rate: £625 per day - Inside of IR35
We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Architect to provide security design leadership across major technology change initiatives within a Higher Education / public-sector-style environment.
This role will focus on security architecture assurance, reviewing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs), advising delivery teams, and ensuring solutions align with agreed security control baselines, organisational risk appetite, and recognised security frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
*Review HLDs and LLDs, providing clear, pragmatic security feedback to architects and engineers
*Define, explain, and advocate baseline security control sets across programmes and projects
*Ensure designs align with recognised frameworks including NCSC CAF, NCSC CSF, NIST CSF, and NIST SP 800-53
*Provide security design assurance across:*Network modernisation
*Identity modernisation
*Cloud adoption and migration (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable)
*CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
*Translate security requirements into actionable design guidance rather than policy-only responses
*Participate in design forums and governance boards, strengthening secure-by-design delivery
*Support security risk assessments, threat modelling, and control gap analysis
Key Skills Needed
*Ability to review an HLD (High level design) or LLD (low level design)and provide security feedback
*Understand, explain and able to advocate baseline control sets
*Understanding of NCSC CSF and 800-53, NCSC CAF
*Experience of one or more of security elements of Network modernisation, Identity modernisation, cloud adaption (AWS) and migration, or CICD pipeline implementation.
*NIST CSF
*Security controls
*Technical Design Authority - Desirable
*Higher Education Experience - Desirable
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Location: London - needs to be onsite Wednesday and Friday
Duration: 6 month contract
Rate: £625 per day - Inside of IR35
We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Architect to provide security design leadership across major technology change initiatives within a Higher Education / public-sector-style environment.
This role will focus on security architecture assurance, reviewing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs), advising delivery teams, and ensuring solutions align with agreed security control baselines, organisational risk appetite, and recognised security frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
*Review HLDs and LLDs, providing clear, pragmatic security feedback to architects and engineers
*Define, explain, and advocate baseline security control sets across programmes and projects
*Ensure designs align with recognised frameworks including NCSC CAF, NCSC CSF, NIST CSF, and NIST SP 800-53
*Provide security design assurance across:*Network modernisation
*Identity modernisation
*Cloud adoption and migration (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable)
*CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
*Translate security requirements into actionable design guidance rather than policy-only responses
*Participate in design forums and governance boards, strengthening secure-by-design delivery
*Support security risk assessments, threat modelling, and control gap analysis
Key Skills Needed
*Ability to review an HLD (High level design) or LLD (low level design)and provide security feedback
*Understand, explain and able to advocate baseline control sets
*Understanding of NCSC CSF and 800-53, NCSC CAF
*Experience of one or more of security elements of Network modernisation, Identity modernisation, cloud adaption (AWS) and migration, or CICD pipeline implementation.
*NIST CSF
*Security controls
*Technical Design Authority - Desirable
*Higher Education Experience - Desirable
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Job number 3620224
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Lorien Resourcing Limited
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