Security Architect

Roles & Responsibilities Define and promote Security Architecture standards, principles, patterns, and best practices across the organization. Review solution architectures to ensure compliance with Group security standards and Secure-by-Design requirements. Provide security guidance for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, and data platforms. Collaborate with Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Engineering teams, and Security teams to design secure enterprise solutions. Conduct security assessments and identify security risks, gaps, and remediation actions. Support architecture reviews, Design Authority sessions, and project governance activities. Define security controls related to authentication, authorization, data protection, encryption, secrets management, and API security. Provide architectural guidance for cloud migration, platform modernization, and digital transformation initiatives. Support implementation of security controls aligned with regulatory, compliance, and banking requirements. Evaluate new technologies and security solutions and recommend adoption where appropriate. Contribute to architecture blueprints, security standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures. Stay updated with the latest security threats, cyber trends, cloud security practices, and industry best practices. Analyze existing security processes and governance models and identify improvement opportunities. Conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs) and architecture studies to validate proposed security solutions. Mentor project teams and promote security awareness across the engineering community. Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex security and architecture challenges.