91483 - Senior Security Architect

Salary   The national salary range is £54,358 - £61,585, London salary range is £58,847 - £66,670. Your salary will be dependent on your base location Total pay in the range of '£50,001 to £60,000, £60,001 and over' are subject to capability, skills and experience. Salary may consist of base pay and a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) Number of jobs available   1 Detail of reserve list   12 Months Region   National City/Town   National Building/Site   NATIONAL Please note: Some of our MoJ Office locations, such as our Liverpool Justice Collaboration Centre, require higher levels of National Security Vetting. The MoJ is working to open more Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices over time. Click here to learn more about where our currently open Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices are, to identify where you may be based and understand National Security Vetting requirements of each location. Grade   Grade 7 Organisation Grade for MoJ   Grade 7 Post Type   Permanent Working Pattern   Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working Role Type   Digital Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?   Yes Job description  

Senior Security Architect

Location:  National*

Closing Date:  30th October

Interviews:  Week commencing 11th November

Grade:  G7

Salary: 

National: £54,358 - £73,450 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,092)

London: £58,847 - £78,225 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,378)

Working pattern:  Full-time part-time jobshare flexible working

Contract Type:  Permanent

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for an Identity Access & Management (IdAM) Senior Security Architect to join our warm and collaborative End User Compute Services (EUCS) IdAM team.

This role aligns against Lead Security Architect from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The EUCS Team designs, delivers, and supports the core infrastructure and systems that enable End-User Compute Services and line-of-business applications for over 100,000 Ministry of Justice users across 800 locations.

These are exciting times at Justice Digital. We have a clear vision - to develop a digitally enabled justice system that works simply for its users - and we’re looking for enthusiastic, talented people to help us achieve it.

We’re improving things by building adaptable, effective services and systems that are simple for staff and citizens to use. This work can be challenging, but it’s also important and rewarding.

In addition to doing interesting work, we’re creating an environment that’s great to work in. We provide the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and offer brilliant training opportunities alongside support from expert colleagues. On top of that, you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture, and a place where your opinion is valued.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

We really want to hear from people who value making a difference and building user-focused services, enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team, that uses modern tools and working practices.

• Work on projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the breadth of the organisation
• Communicate with a broad range of senior stakeholders and be responsible for defining the vision, principles and strategy for security architects
• Recommend security design across several projects or technologies, up to an organisational or inter-organisational level
• Maintain a deep and continuously growing technical expertise, enabling you to set a standard of excellence for others.
• Make and influence important business and architectural decisions
• Research, identify, validate and adopt new technologies and methodologies
• Be a recognised expert and demonstrate this expertise by solving unprecedented issues and problems
• Further the profession, demonstrating and sharing best practices within and outside the organisation

Please note, you will be required to take part in an on-call rota, sharing the responsibility of providing out-of-hours engineering cover for major incidents for which an additional allowance is payable.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience developing and implementing security strategies that embed best practices within multi-disciplinary product teams
• Experience collaborating with Technical Architects to ensure security is an integral part of the design and architecture process.
• Experience engaging with the wider security and privacy teams to understand their requirements and translate them into actionable security capabilities.
• Experience collaborating to ensure that security solutions align with the broader organisational security and privacy goals.
• Able to provide expert guidance to multi-disciplinary product teams, setting security standards and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Experience setting strategic direction on security architecture, capability and operations.
• Ability to identify and define security controls per evolving requirements and threat landscape.
• Understand wider Group Security policy and ability to develop and communicate security standards, patterns, procedures and guidelines that can be implemented effectively by the product teams.
• Monitor and assess security controls across End User Compute Services to maintain a strong security posture
• Experience ensuring appropriate governance, and proportionate effective security monitoring is in place services relative to the risk appetite and tolerance of an organisation.
• Experience working with wider security teams and acting as a security champion within End User Compute Services to ensure a proactive and security-conscious culture.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal statement (approximately 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements listed below.

• Experience developing and implementing security strategies that embed best practices within multi-disciplinary product teams
• Able to provide expert guidance to multi-disciplinary product teams, setting security standards and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Experience setting strategic direction on security architecture, capability and operations.
• Monitor and assess security controls across End User Compute Services to maintain a strong security posture.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and influencing
• Making effective decisions
• Changing and improving
• Managing a quality service

You will also be required to develop and deliver a presentation on a topic which will be provided if you are successfully sifted through to interview.

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your experience setting strategic direction on security architecture, capability and operations.  will be conducted before the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

Allowance Details  

National: £54,358 - £73,450 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,092)

London: £58,847 - £78,225 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,378)

Closing Date:  

30/10/2024, 23:55 hours.

Contact information  

If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com

Please quote the job reference - 91483.

Level of security checks required   Security Clearance (SC)

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

• You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
• You were studying abroad
• You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles  

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

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We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.

Application form stage assessments

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, statement of suitability and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigital/Job/JobDetail?JobId=490.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

· UK nationals

· nationals of the Republic of Ireland

· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules