Security Architect

Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative efficient agile entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives but by fostering a positive supportive fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team with a common goal.

Your Role

The Security Architect is responsible for designing developing and maintaining the security architecture of the organisation. The Security Architect ensures that the Firms technology platforms systems and information assets are aligned with business objectives security principles risk management requirements and regulatory obligations.

The Security Architect works closely with information security infrastructure engineering data product and business stakeholders to understand security and technology needs and design solutions that strengthen the Firms security posture while enabling effective and secure business operations.

Key responsibilities and challenges:

• Working with the Senior Security Architect define and implement the security architecture vision strategy and roadmap for the organisation.
• Promote the benefits and progress the use of secure-by-design principles to support the Firms business strategy and protect its information assets.
• Advise the business and technology teams on security architecture opportunities risks and control requirements across applications infrastructure cloud services data platforms and third-party solutions.
• Analyse and interpret business technical and security requirements and define security architecture solutions.
• Design and develop security architecture patterns standards principles and policies across a range of platforms systems and technology domains.
• Assess and optimise the security resilience scalability reliability and maintainability of technology architecture across the organisation.
• Ensure compliance with information security policies risk management requirements legal and regulatory obligations and relevant security frameworks and standards.
• Lead and coordinate security architecture input across projects platform changes integrations and system implementations.
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders across information security infrastructure engineering data business teams Legal & Risk Human Resources and senior management providing technical guidance and resolving architectural challenges.
• Research and evaluate new security technologies and trends and collaborate with wider Technology & Data teams to ensure security best practices are integrated into system designs configurations and operational processes.

About You

• Extensive experience designing and delivering security architecture patterns principles and best practices within complex business environments.
• Proven ability to manage the complete security architecture lifecycle from technical design and platform assessment through to implementation and optimisation.
• Strong track record collaborating effectively with diverse stakeholders to understand security and business requirements and deliver solutions that meet organisational needs.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and maintaining scalable security architecture standards reference models and control frameworks.
• Well-honed skills in identifying architectural risks control gaps and security weaknesses providing clear guidance on remediation and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of information security frameworks risk management and technical security best practices across enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with legal regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to information security in global organisations.
• Commitment to strengthening architecture performance with a focus on security resilience scalability and operational effectiveness.
• Solid leadership communication and influencing skills with the ability to guide teams influence stakeholders and explain technical security requirements clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Degree-level qualifications in computer science information security or a related field or equivalent professional experience with relevant professional certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional CompTIA Security or equivalent being desirable.

Our Benefits

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance:

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle:

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network With Pride or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. As such the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.