Security Architect

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Role description:

The Tech Security Architect will define and govern secure resilient technology architecture for the Technology Function translating business drivers and risk priorities into scalable future-ready infrastructure and operational security solutions. This role ensures platforms are secure by design aligned to business outcomes and sustainable while managing risk complexity and long-term service quality.

Role accountabilities:

• Translate business and technology strategy into architectural principles reference models and future-state roadmaps.

• Design enterprise-wide infrastructure and platform architecture spanning on-prem hybrid multi-cloud data centres AI/ML foundations edge and emerging technologies.

• Ensure interoperability scalability maintainability performance and resilience across the IT estate.

• Define and enforce non-negotiable architecture standards controls and guardrails.

• Embed secure by design and resilience principles into all technology designs.

• Govern adherence to architecture through reviews patterns and design assurance.

• Lead gap analyses between current and future states.

• Define migration and modernisation plans aligned to business priorities.

• Assess infrastructure readiness for AI workloads and data-intensive platforms.

• Embed AI-driven infrastructure and automation approaches where appropriate.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture Solution and Domain Architects to ensure alignment across programmes and platforms.

• Engage with business security SOC risk legal vendors and DevOps teams to balance requirements constraints and opportunities.

• Provide architectural direction coaching and mentoring to uplift capability.

• Identify and assess architectural risk across platforms integrations data flows and infrastructure landscapes.

• Provide clear evidence-based trade-off recommendations balancing speed cost risk scalability and long-term sustainability.

• Prevent unnecessary complexity by enforcing architectural standards and reducing duplication across technology towers.

• Embed security into DevOps and platform engineering (shift-left and continuous validation).

• Define threat modelling detection engineering and secure runbook expectations.

• Enable continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) across infrastructure and applications.

• Deliver a coherent secure and resilient global technology architecture.

• Align technology roadmaps to business outcomes and operational needs.

• Reduce technical debt and unmanaged complexity across the IT estate.

• Accountable for the health safety and wellbeing (HSW) of their teams and expected to demonstrate stewardship and care in all aspects of their role. This includes championing an ambitious people-first culture within Technology by setting clear HSW expectations leading by example empowering and engaging employees and communicating openly.

• Leaders should recognize safe behaviors and foster a caring One Team ethoswhere everyone feels empowered to take responsibility speak up and return home unharmed both physically and psychologically.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8 years experience in security related architecture.

• Proven track record defining and implementing enterprise architecture strategy across multiple technology towers including applications data infrastructure and security.

• Strong expertise in integration design master data architecture and interoperability frameworks.

• Deep understanding of secure resilient technology architecture and the translation of business drivers and risk priorities into scalable future-ready infrastructure and operational security solutions.

• Experience defining and enforcing non-negotiable architecture standards controls and guardrails and embedding secure by design and resilience principles into technology designs.

• Strong knowledge of security architecture across platforms integrations data flows and infrastructure landscapes including threat modeling detection engineering and secure runbook expectations.

• Experience enabling continuous threat exposure management across infrastructure and applications and embedding security into DevOps and platform engineering.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to partner effectively with Enterprise Architecture Solution and Domain Architects Cybersecurity and SOC Risk Legal and Compliance vendors and Data Platform and Product or DevOps teams.

• Strong analytical judgment and trade-off management capability balancing speed cost risk scalability and long-term sustainability.

• Leadership style that empowers Arcadians promotes accountability and continuous improvement and supports a healthy inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious driving success and igniting passion.

• Degree level education in cybersecurity computer science information systems software engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• Advanced degree preferred such as a Masters in cybersecurity information security computer science or a related field or equivalent senior-level experience in complex global organizations.

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