Security Architect

• Opportunity to play a key role in shaping and improving cybersecurity architecture within a global enterprise environment.
• Exposure to large-scale projects, cloud technologies, and complex security challenges across multiple regions and business functions.
• Strong stakeholder visibility, working closely with architecture, engineering, infrastructure, and senior leadership teams.
• A collaborative and international environment with opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning.
• The chance to drive Secure-by-Design practices and influence strategic technology decisions with a direct business impact.

The Security Architect is responsible for designing secure technology solutions and ensuring security risks are managed across projects, systems, and business initiatives.The role combines security architecture, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen cybersecurity while supporting business goals.

• High visibility and business impact
• Opportunity to grow as a strategic Security Architect

• Support the development of security architectures, including target states, transition plans and roadmaps aligned to business objectives, IT strategy and security risk appetite.
• Provide risk-based security architecture guidance to engineering, infrastructure, application, architecture, project and business teams.
• Review solution, application, infrastructure and integration designs to ensure secure-by-design principles, appropriate technology selection and alignment with PageGroup security policies and standards.
• Support security architecture activities across BAU services, projects, programmes and material change initiatives, ensuring security requirements are identified, designed, implemented and governed.
• Perform threat modelling, threat analysis and architecture risk assessments to identify threats, attack paths, vulnerabilities, security weaknesses and appropriate mitigating controls.
• Define, document and maintain security requirements, control specifications, architectural patterns, standards, baselines and implementation guidance, ensuring alignment with business risk appetite and applicable security standards.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and implementation assurance activities to validate that agreed security controls and requirements have been effectively implemented.
• Review remediation plans and support the closure of security findings, defects and design issues.
• Participate in architecture governance forums, change reviews and security assurance activities, providing advice on security risks and compliance with security standards.
• Conduct independent security reviews and produce technical reports, recommendations and supporting documentation, including working with third parties where required.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, threats and security trends, recommending updates to standards, controls and guidance where appropriate.
• Support continuous improvement activities that strengthen the security posture of existing technology platforms and services.

• Great communication skills, capable of engaging effectively from engineering levels to C-Level executives.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities, including troubleshooting and adapting to significant project changes.
• Proficiency in working under pressure and managing multiple priorities.
• Proactive and forward-thinking attitude towards cybersecurity.
• Risk assessment and risk management.
• Knowledge of project and program management methodologies.
• Basic understanding of corporate finance and commercial awareness.
• Calm and assertive in challenging situations.
• Creativity in formulating alternative approaches to problems.
• Ability to work effectively on large, global projects in diverse and multi-cultural environments.
• Commitment to achieving quality with a rational and organised approach to tasks.

• Cohesive and supportive across all business groups.
• Cultural awareness when working with global teams.
• Collaborative approach to working across teams and the wider organisation.
• Analytical and lateral thinker, with a very strong attention to detail.
• Proactive and pragmatic - able to balance competing pressures and influences.
• Customer focused and able to enthuse and motivate teams and individuals.
• Persuasive and professional communication style, with the ability to influence business decisions.