Information Security Architect

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• Working as part of the wider Security Architecture, Engineering and Resilience team, the Information Security Architect is the responsible authority with the requisite knowledge to work across a wide variety of portfolios providing Information & Cyber Security domain expertise and skills to help provide strategic technical direction that can optimise enterprise outcomes.
• This role focuses on the implementation of Information and Cyber Security across multiple portfolios within CC IT space.
• It is a key role in delivering Information & Cyber Security transformation and helping to ensure that the end vision is being delivered in a secure and resilient way while focusing on the overall experience to the users.
• The Information Security Architect will collaborate on the production of the domain architectural runway built to support future, current and near-term business security and resiliency needs.
• The Information Security Architect will also lead the firms IoT Security platform in line with its Smart Building and aligned activities. It will also maintain the assurance posture for IoT and OT devices making sure that Cyber response and monitoring is achieved with the desired visibility and that the IoT and OT devices are secured according to risk.
• The Information Security Architect will be responsible for architecture security patterns and approaches for firm systems and data deploying best practice by default.
• The Information Security Architect will be the first point of all for all matters of technical guidance around security to other subject matter experts in the business.
• At portfolio level, the Information Security Architect provides guidance relating to information and cyber security with regards to business changes, changes in underlying technologies, emerging standards, competitive changes and other factors, which may drive the business in directions that are outside the purview of agile portfolios.
• The Information Security Architect will be a gatekeeper of Information Security within the CC Architecture Community of Practice and make sure that all platforms are appropriately designed to mitigate information risk and are secured as appropriate and tested as required.
• Information Security architect will work with the Cloud Security Architect to build on the Cloud Centre of Excellence within the firm making sure that all activities are visible and secure.
• Information Security Architect will represent the security function at governance and control activities within the wider IT and firms aligned functions.

• Maintain a high-level holistic vision of Information Security within enterprise solutions and development initiatives.
• Build, contribute and maintain Information Security input to domain level roadmaps by demonstrating how they deliver the firm's core business capabilities in a secure manner and align to longer term strategic security and…