Senior Security Architect

Senior Security Architect, Security Architecture
Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Your new role At NewDay

As a Security Architect at NewDay, you will ensure that security meets the needs of the organisation and that security services are designed, delivered, and supported as an integral part of our business and platform.

You will articulate security principles in a fast-paced agile environment and deliver security architecture with a balanced influence/use of process and standards security architecture frameworks.

0-12 months you’ll deliver

• Collaborate on plans for cloud-based solutions, including but not limited to transition strategies, bundling (multiple cloud offerings) strategies, risk assessment, and roadmap planning.
• Develops and maintains enterprise-level security design/policy to be used in development, infrastructure or any other technology project.
• Develops, maintains, owns, and regularly updates security architecture artefacts and views, including technology stack, information flows, solutions and services.
• Implement and design API Security, Container Security, Azure and AWS Cloud Security.
• Work with multi-disciplined teams to develop security-related procedures and guidelines that support information security policies.
• Oversees and provides assurance that security requirements are set and implemented as part of change projects.
• Work together with InfoSec Information Security Risk and Compliance team to embed requirements, coming out of risk assessments, into the Information Security Architecture

What you’ll bring

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:
• Working experience as a security architect, from an end-to-end perspective, across different business domains
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design, building for resilience and cloud security architectures
• Experience working with autonomous agile teams.
• A high-level understanding of security principles, control frameworks, threat modelling, and cloud security risks.

And would love you to know or learn:
• Understanding of the Payments industry and embedded finance.
• Background working in Service Provider or SaaS Platform.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks and standards, e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR
• Experience in software engineering
• Working knowledge of Identity services, single sign-on (SSO), OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML
• Secure Development, CI/CD, and DevSecOps
• Relevant certifications such as SABSA, TOGAF, CISSP, CISM

About NewDay

We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.

We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.

Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.