Our OEM Client based in Manchester, is searching for a Senior Security Architect to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a 12-month contract position initially until 31st March 2026, with the potential for further extensions.Umbrella Pay Rate: Up to £68.32 per hour.Position Description:We are looking for someone who will help us realise our business vision for a resilient IoT platform that will provide our customers, suppliers and partners with seamless connected services delivered through an industry-leading global platform that will generate new income streams for our business and help drive down costs through the use of data analytics.Our Security Architects work closely with stakeholders to define and evolve system security architectures that are secure by design. You will be a valued member of our Offboard Cyber Security Chapter reporting in to Offboard Security Architecture Chapter Lead, contributing to the strategic direction of the technology and solutions delivered.As a Senior Security Architect, you will work in conjunction with solution architects, product owners, technical leads and embedded security champions to identify the security risks associated with our products using application security threat modelling. You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify secure architectures, best practices and requirements that enable us to deploy secure systems at scale. You will support our engineering teams through their security assurance journeys working to identify security assurance testing regimes that are aligned with our products.This role sits within the Offboard Cyber Security Chapter in Manchester, reporting to the Security Engineering Chapter Lead, and would suit those who are technically minded; be that from a cyber security background or those with a software engineering background. This is a senior role in our team but there is still plenty of scope to develop your skills. The role would suite someone with a strong technical background in software development wanting to focus on delivering secure systems at scale.You will have a drive to grow security culture providing tooling, guidance, and support to a large number of agile development squads working on many projects. We have a strong DevSecOps culture with security being a key principle of everything we deliver, our Security Architects work extremely closely with our product development teams to develop this culture and the processes to support it. We are SME’s and consultants to the rest of our organisation, and act as an escalation point helping teams learn, grow, and overcome any security related challenges.We work with new and exciting technologies to provide global services for the connected car of the future. We work collaboratively and value each other’s opinions, as part of the team here you will have the opportunity to impact and influence a technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of our customers daily, solving difficult engineering challenges on a global scale.We are reimagining how we deliver secure global solutions in a highly agile environment. We have a strong focus on DevSecOps and empowering engineering teams to deliver and deploy large, secure systems at pace.Roles and Responsibilities:
- Providing consultation to product teams in security architecture and design, and conduct security reviews of new and existing products and services
- Developing and owning architectural solutions that deliver this highest standard of security
- Collaborating closely with Solution Architecture team to ensure our systems are secure by design
- Working with engineering teams to create threat models
- Continual collaboration with stakeholders with a view to being a key part of the product delivery teams’ success
- Maintaining strong know