About the role

  • Security Architect at EIT designing and evolving security architecture for diverse environments. Collaborating with teams to integrate security in advanced research systems and platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the institute’s security architecture and target-state security models
  • Design security controls for new and existing systems, platforms, and services
  • Review solution designs and technical changes to ensure alignment with security standards
  • Produce clear architectural documentation, diagrams, and design patterns
  • Design security architectures for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments
  • Define identity, access, network segmentation, encryption, and monitoring patterns
  • Advise on secure adoption of new technologies and services in the context of AI, robotics, and data platforms and HPC.
  • Translate threat models and risk assessments into architectural controls
  • Conduct security architecture reviews and threat modelling exercises
  • Support security assurance activities and provide architectural input to audits and assessments
  • Define security architecture standards, reference architectures, and design principles
  • Ensure architectural alignment with frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, and Zero Trust
  • Contribute to institutional security strategy and long-term roadmap planning
  • Act as a trusted technical authority on security architecture
  • Influence technology decisions through clear risk-based recommendations
  • Support scientific operations and engineering teams with architectural guidance.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Security Architect or senior security engineering role
  • Designing security for complex, distributed environments
  • Supporting cloud-first or hybrid infrastructures
  • Working with sensitive data, IP, or regulated research information (ISO27001, etc)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (OCI) in a security context
  • Able to cross collaborate with different stakeholder groups,
  • Promoter of IT security as an enabler not blocker.
  • For the Institutes & Programmes Security Architect role - Security Architect Experience in research, higher education, scientific computing, aerospace or engineering environments is essential.
  • Experience in research, higher education, or scientific computing environments
  • Familiarity with HPC, large-scale data platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
  • Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF with security focus)
  • Experience with advising scientific staff and researchers within an R&D environment

Benefits

  • Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 + travel allowance + bonus
  • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Hospital Cash Plan
  • Therapy Services
  • Perk Box
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Childcare benefit

Job title

Security Architect

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£70,000 - £80,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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