Technical & Security Architect Export Finance - G7

Technical & Security Architect – UK Export Finance (G7)

Posted 6 days ago

Location:

London, England, United Kingdom

Pay is based on skills and experience. Contact the recruiter for details.

The key responsibilities and deliverables for this post are working with UKEF colleagues and customers to ensure that UKEF can meet evolving customer demand using a secure, scalable and robust enterprise architecture blueprint.

• Designing secure systems – design and review system architectures through the development of patterns and principles.
• Security technology – demonstrate strong knowledge of system architectures; articulate impact of vulnerabilities; be recognised as an expert by peers in the security industry.
• Communicating between technical and non‑technical stakeholders – identify needs of business and technical stakeholders, manage expectations, demonstrate excellent communication skills, manage difficult conversations or negotiations.
• Making and guiding decisions – make decisions characterised by managed risk and complexity, recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase, resolve technical disputes between peers and stakeholders, considering all views.
• Strategy – apply strategy, challenge patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements; provide guidance.
• Turning business problems into secure technical designs – design systems with high risk, impact and complexity; work across multiple services or large complex services.
• Understanding the whole context – understand trends and practices outside the team, see how your work fits into broader strategy and historical context; consider patterns and interactions on a larger scale.
• The public core of the internet – detailed experience of naming and numbering systems, cryptographic mechanisms, packet routing, common protocols, DNS.

Expertise of at least two of the following:

• Managing domains for a large, distributed and federated organisation.
• How domains are used to support internet services and their security.
• Different ways a domain vulnerability can be exploited and how to prevent them.
• Developing tools that interact with domain records.

• Relevant degree in an associated Computer Science subject or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
• Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS.

• Demonstrable knowledge of creation and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models.
• Demonstrable knowledge of security frameworks, standards and regulatory requirements e.g. GDPR, PCI DSS.

• Creation and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models.
• Creation and delivery of enterprise architectures.
• High‑level stakeholder relationship management.
• Guidance to development teams, mentorship, fostering professional growth, inclusive and collaborative environment.

• Leadership and management in an enterprise architecture function.
• Extensive experience in technical and security architecture covering a wide range of activities, aligned to technology, digital and data requirements, ensuring business priorities, value for money and risk.
• Working across the business to capture strategic needs within vision and roadmaps of enterprise architecture.
• Advising and developing future state architecture of an organisation to meet strategic needs, including working knowledge of cloud technologies.
• Applying best practice Data Management methods to develop data quality metrics and optimise system performance.
• Applying best‑in‑practice architectural concepts and processes, using relevant tooling that supports enterprise architecture development, mapping and monitoring.

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

• Technical – assessed across technical expertise and acumen related to the essential criteria.
• Presentation – topic will be agreed by UKEF and shared ahead of interview.