Full job descriptionAssociate Director, Cyber Security Operations ArchitectBasic informationLocation

Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

19-Oct-2026

Req #

25528
Job descriptionConnect to your Industry
Cyber security is critical to every organisation. We are shaping strategies and transforming the management of cyber risk, and we need you to join us. You’ll build strong relationships as one of the areas of our cyber practice with over 450 extremely talented individuals in the UK alone, as part of a Technology and Transformation practice of 7500 people. Cyber security is a business problem, not just a technical problem, and we need people with a diverse array of backgrounds and skills sets to help our clients solve it. Join us and you will help our clients solve the latest cyber security challenges, in a business with very significant growth ambitions enjoying the kind of professional development that will set your potential free.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients’ become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
This is your opportunity to join Deloitte Technology & Transformation in our Cyber Defence team; the dedicated home for next-gen SOC and preventative cloud security advisory and implementation for our clients.
Your role
As a Principle Operations Architect at Deloitte you will be responsible for leading major design of Next-Gen Cyber Defence solutions for our largest and most complex clients. You will provide the bridge between our strategy and operating model teams providing the blueprints to which our engineers build.
Given the nature of our clients you will research and experiment with different approaches and tooling to ensure we remain on the cutting edge of Cyber Defence, you will influence our macro approach as part of our leadership, whilst also setting the direction for specific clients demands.
*Serve as a technical lead on our Cyber Defence holistic architecture design and subsequent solutions and data flows
*Drive the implementation and operationalisation of solution designs, based on client and internal requirements
*Provide leadership for the wider Cyber Defence architecture team, managing responsibilities, priorities and workload
*Be responsible for bringing thought leadership, innovation and proactively drive continuous improvement
*Collaborate with Engineers, sharing new strategies to be deployed, and monitoring their effectiveness
*Work with Industry, sector and account leads to identify and shape market opportunities, win & close deals and manage service delivery
*Spearhead research using different approaches and tooling
*Serve as point of escalation for the Senior Architects
*Responsible for establishing and growing client relationships and an understanding of the client’s needs
*Develop positive working relationships with Deloitte and client teams
*Involvement in the determination of support contract development and renewals
Connect to your skills and professional experience
Whilst a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering is desirable, we are more interested in your real-world professional experience and your ability to turn this into impactful client outcomes.
Key skills - not every candidate requires all of these, but should be familiar and/or have experience with a majority of these:
*Building strong client relationships, particularly within engagement delivery. Ability to understand client problems and issues and develop a proposal for how we can support.
*Strong interpersonal and relationship skills.
*Broad enterprise data security understanding and/or experience across data classification, data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, data masking, data governance, and data privacy, with demonstrable ability to build data security strategies which integrate into client enterprise architectures and beyond.
*Experience working in a digital transformation environment supporting the definition and implementation of data security architecture leveraging Microsoft cloud-native and hybrid solutions.
*Understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), data governance frameworks, and emerging trends in data security.
*Exposure to/Understanding of DevOps tools and repositories (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible etc.).
*Role-based access control (RBAC) and data access governance design within Microsoft environments.
*Experience with modern data security concepts such as data-centric security, zero trust data access, and cloud-native data protection.
In addition to the above the following are desirable:
*Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CIPP/E, Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, etc.).
Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Cyber
The modern world is more complex than ever before, and we are navigating an ever-changing landscape. We help clients to operate with resilience and grow with confidence to secure success and minimise risk.
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