Principal Cybersecurity Architect
JOB_53378464713145Job type
ContractLocation
HeathrowWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Cyber SecurityIndustry
Aviation & AerospacePay
Day RateClosing date
1 Sep 2025
Principe Cybersecurity Architect - 12-month+ contract - 2–3 days a month on site - Inside Ir35 - Hays
ROLE TITLE – PRINCIPAL CYBER ARCHITECT
ROLE PURPOSE: This role reports to the Head of Cyber Architecture, working closely with Tech Delivery Teams, the Cyber Team and the Cyber Security Office. Act as the company Cyber representative on Cyber Architecture matters, undertakes complex work of a high-risk level, often working on several projects.
Accountabilities
• Work on projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the breadth of company.
• Recommend security design across several projects or technologies, up to an organisational or inter-organisational level.
• Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing problems and be able to justify and communicate design decision.
• Interact with senior stakeholders across departments within the business.
• Design and review system architectures through the development of reference architectures, patterns and principles.
• Ownership of one or more domains of expertise within the cyber capability map.
• Works closely with the Cyber Assurance teams on projects, programmes and agile product teams.
• Represent company cyber architecture on technical governance groups.
• Contributes to the company's enterprise cyber architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Stay updated on Emerging Trends: Keep abreast of the latest security technologies, threats, and best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend security enhancements to adapt to evolving risks and industry standards.
Skills / capabilities
• Expert understanding of security concepts and can apply them to a technical level, at the highest levels of risk complexity.
• Stakeholder management with complex stakeholder relationships across the business
• Develop and maintain cyber architectural artifacts including patterns and reference architectures.
• Ability to review and produce technical cyber design resources and assets.
• Effectively translate and accurately communicate security and risk implications to senior stakeholders.
Qualifications / experience
• Relevant cyber architecture qualifications desirable (CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF).
• At least 5 years demonstrable experience in developing cyber design/architecture in large enterprise environments.
• Demonstrable awareness of cyber design/architecture trends.
Experience of Web development
DevSecOps
Threat modelling
Secure by design
• Further the profession, demonstrating and sharing best practice within and outside the organisation.
• Experience of cyber design in an Agile development cycle.
• Understanding of aviation systems (desirable).
Please get in touch as this will go quickly!
ROLE PURPOSE: This role reports to the Head of Cyber Architecture, working closely with Tech Delivery Teams, the Cyber Team and the Cyber Security Office. Act as the company Cyber representative on Cyber Architecture matters, undertakes complex work of a high-risk level, often working on several projects.
Accountabilities
• Work on projects with high strategic impact, setting a strategy that can be used in the long term and across the breadth of company.
• Recommend security design across several projects or technologies, up to an organisational or inter-organisational level.
• Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing problems and be able to justify and communicate design decision.
• Interact with senior stakeholders across departments within the business.
• Design and review system architectures through the development of reference architectures, patterns and principles.
• Ownership of one or more domains of expertise within the cyber capability map.
• Works closely with the Cyber Assurance teams on projects, programmes and agile product teams.
• Represent company cyber architecture on technical governance groups.
• Contributes to the company's enterprise cyber architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Stay updated on Emerging Trends: Keep abreast of the latest security technologies, threats, and best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend security enhancements to adapt to evolving risks and industry standards.
Skills / capabilities
• Expert understanding of security concepts and can apply them to a technical level, at the highest levels of risk complexity.
• Stakeholder management with complex stakeholder relationships across the business
• Develop and maintain cyber architectural artifacts including patterns and reference architectures.
• Ability to review and produce technical cyber design resources and assets.
• Effectively translate and accurately communicate security and risk implications to senior stakeholders.
Qualifications / experience
• Relevant cyber architecture qualifications desirable (CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF).
• At least 5 years demonstrable experience in developing cyber design/architecture in large enterprise environments.
• Demonstrable awareness of cyber design/architecture trends.
Experience of Web development
DevSecOps
Threat modelling
Secure by design
• Further the profession, demonstrating and sharing best practice within and outside the organisation.
• Experience of cyber design in an Agile development cycle.
• Understanding of aviation systems (desirable).
Please get in touch as this will go quickly!
Principal Cybersecurity ArchitectJOB_533784647131452025-08-192025-09-01
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