Lead Security Architect Job in London, London Uk
Lead Security Architect - London - £53,000 - £64,573 (inc. allowances) + benefits
A large government agency is recruiting for skilled IT professionals to join their consultancy services. The team supports the delivery of many important and cutting edge programmes for their 25,000 staff across the globe. Their aim is to help deliver the services that underpin the overarching objectives of the agency and they therefore require additional people to uplift their capability in order to improve their delivery.
As such they are now seeking a Lead Security Architect to work across a range of complex IT projects and programmes. In this role you will engage with customers to identify requirements and will work closely with major suppliers throughout the design and delivery phases and be ultimately responsible for the assurance of technical and security solutions ensuring they are fit for purpose and in line with organisational standards. You will also be responsible for ensuring business impact assessments and IT health checks are undertaken and business continuity and disaster recover solutions are in place as well as taking a proactive role in the development of architectural standards and guidelines and the creation and maintenance of technical roadmaps.
As the ideal candidate you will have proven experience of producing security focussed business impact assessments; Initiating and managing IT health checks and mitigation plans; designing and deploying business continuity and disaster recovery solutions and designing and deploying SOA and enterprise solutions in large complex environments. You will ideally have a strong knowledge of CESG Government Security Standards, Security Encryption Technologies and PKI as well as a broad experience of infrastructure technologies including Desktop, Server; Storage; Networks; Messaging; and Databases.
If you are a successful and ambitious Lead Security Architect looking to be involved in some of the UK's most complex and dynamic projects and come from an IT or Telecommunications background we would like to hear from you. For more information or to apply, please contact Natalie Cannon 0113 201 0318 or send your CV