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Job Profile – Security Solution Architect
Location: UK - Sheffield (3 days weekly from office)
Project Overview
Top Bank is working on a strategic Identity and Access Management programme and is re-shaping the way Authentication, Federation, Privileged Access Management, Access Governance, Secrets Management and API Security is done across the bank. One of the pillars of that programme is Privileged Access Management (PAM). Bank is working on uplifting controls and capabilities in privileged access for the Group and introducing the strategic password vaulting solution that will enable to meet strategic requirements.
We are seeking an experienced Security Solution Architect that can complement an existing team of Solution Architects to progress with designs of different components of the PAM solution and other supporting systems it will need to integrate with as part of the end-to-end journey.
Security Solution Architects manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. They will be responsible for the creation of high-level and low-level designs, documenting key design decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
Security Solution Architects should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders as well as working with global teams to both explain the design and agree designs related to the Password Management of new Technologies.
Principal Preferred Requirements
Cybersecurity Expertise:
* Experience as a Solution Architect with knowledge of identity & access management, and especially PAM
* Strong experience documenting High-Level and Low-Level designs.
* Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
* Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes
* Experience working with PAM solutions such as CyberArk, Centrify, Delinea / Thycotic and OneIdentity
Qualifications & Certifications:
* CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate
Platform & Technology:
* BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
* Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management
* Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation
Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities
Architecture & Design:
* Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements including low-level / detailed designs
* Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process
* Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
* Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
* Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
* Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
* Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security
* Promote strong documentation and clerkship
Risk and Dependency Management:
* Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues
* Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
* Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change
Teamwork
* Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
* Experience of performing peer reviews of the PAM team’s designs
* Collaborate with members of the Engineering and Test teams within the programme
General
* Excellent knowledge of English both spoken and written
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