CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECT - CHESTER (HYBRID)

KEY POINTS

Senior security leadership role reporting to the Head of Cyber Security

Lead Security Engineering across IAM, Cloud, Threat Modelling & Application Security

Hybrid working - minimum 2 days per week onsite near Chester

Competitive salary + strong benefits package

ABOUT THE CLIENT

We’re partnering with a well-established UK organisation recognised as one of the best large companies to work for. With a strong people-first culture and continued investment in technology, they are now looking to appoint a Cyber Security Architect to shape and mature their enterprise security capability.

THE CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECT ROLE:

This is a senior, strategic position responsible for shaping the organisation’s security architecture and embedding security by design across all IT and business change initiatives. You will lead the Security Engineering function, covering Identity & Access Management, Cloud Security, Threat Modelling, and Application Security. You’ll work closely with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders to ensure secure solution design, influence strategic technology decisions, and maintain alignment with regulatory and business objectives. You will also drive architecture reviews for major programmes, define and maintain security reference models, evaluate emerging technologies, and mentor security professionals within the team.

CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECT ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise security architectures
• Strong expertise in Identity & Access Management principles and technologies
• Experience within predominantly Microsoft environments
• Cloud security expertise (Azure essential, AWS desirable)
• Threat modelling and secure design review experience
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to influence and embed security best practice across diverse teams
• Experience leading and mentoring security engineers

DESIRABLE

Knowledge of secure development frameworks (e.g. OWASP)

Experience with Akamai

Understanding of Zero Trust principles

Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP or SABSA

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via .

For further information please call me on 01244 567 930 / 07833 460 873.

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KEY SKILLS

Cyber Security, Security Architecture, IAM, Identity & Access Management, Azure, AWS, Microsoft, Threat Modelling, Application Security, Zero Trust, OWASP, CISSP, CCSP, SABSA