Senior Cyber Security Architect

at  Daintta

Daintta is a rapidly growing technical consultancy applying our expertise against the United Kingdom’s complex issues aligned to the National risk register. In complex environments, we use innovative methods to solve the hardest data challenges to help organisations make more informed and accurate decisions, at scale and faster. We are agile, responsive, independent, and collaborative while our values of Fair, Transparent and Daring guide all our decision making.
We’re seeking an experienced and motivated senior security architect who understands the mission applicability to the UK’s National Security. An architect who can apply their skills and experience to contribute to strengthening security resilience through our client’s projects and programmes.
The architect will work to understand the principles that underlie client needs, apply their knowledge of known security design, implementation patterns and security concepts. They will also be able to pursue and achieve greater resilience using innovative and newly developed techniques.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE

• You have experience reviewing and designing a range of complex systems.
• You have degree level and extensive industry experience in cyber security.
• You have experience implying controls & policies on differing information schemas.
• You have experience of leading teams, leading projects and leading security forums or security working groups.
• You have worked in client delivery across a range of projects and have experience in various cyber technologies.
• You have experience working on cloud-based infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• You have experience of ISO27001, NIST, TOGAF, CAF, SbD or other industry standards.
• You have demonstrable continuous personal development with relevant certifications or accreditations.
• You have strong interpersonal skills.
• You have UK security clearance at SC or above or are eligible and willing to go through clearance.

• Leading client engagements as a subject matter expert in Cyber Security.
• Assessing your clients’ needs and the ability to understand how these needs are different to their wants to manage clients’ stakeholders relationship appropriately.
• Identifying, understanding and communicating risks to stakeholders.
• Adapting industry best practice to design solutions that pragmatically solve cyber security problems.
• Selecting, adopting and adapting security control frameworks where required.
• Designing, justifying and implementing security management strategies.
• Ensuring security principles are applied during design and development to reduce risk.
• Developing and communicating corporate information security policy, standards and guidelines.
• Developing organisational strategies that address information control requirements. Identifying and monitoring environmental and market trends and proactively assessing impact on business strategies, benefits and risks.
• Obtaining and acting on vulnerability information, conducting security risk assessments, business impact analysis and accreditation on complex information systems and recommending appropriate control improvements.
• Developing new architectures that mitigate the risks posed by new technologies and business practices, alongside documentation of logical designs, High Level Designs (HLDs) & Low Level Designs (LLDs).
• Accurately delivering high quality work to agreed timelines and taking the initiative and knowing how to jump straight in.
• Supporting client engagements, including pitches and presentations.
• Helping to support & grow Daintta by actively inputting into the company strategy and helping to shape our future.
• Representing us and our core values: Transparent, fair and daring.