Your role:

• Define the architecture and technical direction for new products and major initiatives
• Make complex architectural decisions and navigate technical trade-offs
• Embed security, assurance and maintainability into product design
• Provide architectural input into complex customer deployments and integrations
• Identify opportunities for shared platforms, services and tooling
• Act as a technical escalation point for challenging engineering and customer issues
• Develop architectural capability across the senior engineering community
• Be hands-on with complex systems, investigating problems and working alongside engineers to find the right solution

Location / WFH:

You'll join colleagues in the Central London office twice a week, with flexibility to work from home the other days.

About you:

• You'll have experience as a Principal, Staff Engineer, Lead Architect or equivalent level within a technically complex environment, with deep expertise in systems and security
• You have experience across several of the following: Linux, operating systems and systems engineering, security architecture, threat modelling and secure-by-design, Networking e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, TLS and VPNs, PKI, certificates, authentication and identity, Enterprise Microsoft and / or Linux environments, virtualisation, isolation and separation technologies, architecture across multiple teams or products
• You're collaborative with strong technical communication with engineers, customers and senior stakeholders
• Above all, you'll bring strong architectural judgement and are comfortable making decisions where there isn't an obvious answer - balancing security, engineering effort, customer requirements and long-term product strategy
• You are a UK citizen and able to achieve SC / DV Security Clearance
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