Lead Security Architect

What you will 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

Skills and Experience

Essential

• 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.

Desirable
• 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

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