Solutions Designer

Greetings. We are hiring a solution designer/Enterprise architect (GCB3 equivalent) position in London/Sheffield.

Duration: 6 months. Hybrid model.

Net Segmentation Solution Designer / Enterprise Architect (GCB3 equivalent).

Security Solution Designers own and are responsible for providing Reference Architecture related to Network Segmentation and security controls applied to ensure applications, environments, regions and business units are appropriately secured to limit blast radius and traversal throughout the network. This role ensures that all relevant artefacts are created in collaboration with key stakeholders across the bank, and approved via the appropriate governance to ensure an end-to-end traceability from threats, risks and vulnerabilities through to implementation.

Security Solution Designers should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders. Additionally, the Security Solution Architect will provide technical thought leadership and direction to aligned projects and may act as subject matter experts and consultants related programmes.

• Significant experience and proven technical depth within the following domains: network segmentation (including micro), network isolation, application segmentation, application security, SDLC and lower environments security.
• Practical experience of network segmentation of an existing network into zones, segments, end-to-end segregation from design through to delivery and migration (e.g., refactoring, deployment), and accompanying standards.
• Documentation of the above areas including standards, patterns, strategies, roadmaps and recommendation papers positioned at senior leadership level as well as for engineers.
• Deep and extensive knowledge of industry standard frameworks around the security of networks and applications (e.g., NIST, SANS, ITU).
• Experience and understanding of threat modelling, risk assessments and maintaining a data-driven evidence-based approach to decision making.
• Significant experience dealing with regulatory bodies globally, from requirements to audits.
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related scientific or mathematical field.
• SABSA, TOGAF certification or related industry-recognised certifications.
• Network infrastructure qualifications, along with Application security (e.g., CEH or similar).

• Working practical knowledge of legacy and modern networking infrastructure.
• Experience with both inter and intra-zone security controls (e.g., WAAP, NIPS/NIDS, NGFWs, DDoS, API Gateways, Reverse Proxies, AuthNZ).
• Bizz Design, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs.
• Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management.
• Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation.

• Collaborate extensively and align directly with Security Architecture colleagues and produce high quality detailed artefacts.
• Liaise with key stakeholders across the bank to understand requirements, constraints, technical debt, initiatives and drivers, keeping communication lines open and transparent.
• Produce and document clear, concise and accurate Reference Architecture including standards, patterns, roadmaps and strategies.
• Articulate problem statements, technical debts, decisions and risks to senior management.
• Seek and gain buy-in from stakeholders to ensure pragmatism in a global fast-paced environment.
• Ensure governance is followed and provide data-driven evidence for decisions.
• Liaise with PMOs, BAs, SAs, SMEs and policy owners to capture and deliver requirements in artefacts.
• Produce strategies, standards, patterns and roadmaps, along with future-state architectures that describe the approach, benefits, timelines and dependencies.
• Promote strong documentation and clerkship.

• Manage challenging…