Security Architect; OMNIA

Overview

Security Architect (OMNIA) role at Raytheon UK, Warminster based, hybrid working. Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.

About OMNIA Training: OMNIA brings together the UK’s defence training organisations to transform the British Army’s training system. We are backed by British innovation and world-class experts, and are at the heart of the UK’s Land Industrial Strategy.

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. You will work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through the OMNIA Training Support Branch and functionally through the Raytheon UK Engineering Management team, specifically the Systems Security Engineering Group.

You’ll work with the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training. The Omnia Security Architect role requires a versatile individual who can contribute across the project lifecycle in collective training and deployed IT environments, operating in a senior technical role with customer and delivery teams, alone and unsupervised if necessary. This position supports the Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP), ensuring training meets the British Army’s needs.

The role concentrates on Information Assurance and Cyber Security and may also support Physical and Personnel security elements.

The successful candidate should communicate effectively with technical experts and broader stakeholders, applying a holistic approach to create solutions that help the organisation achieve its goals. You must be a team player who can lead from the front and work with a multi-skilled engineering team and the customer community.

• Developing, contributing to and managing the security vision, security architecture specifications, threat modelling, security requirements, standards, reference architectures, security strategies and roadmaps
• Applying security design principles to develop security architectures
• Leading security interactions with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Supporting security assurance of systems
• Developing and/or guiding the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy
• Capturing, expanding, and analysing security requirements
• Developing innovative security solutions to enable execution of the long-term security architecture
• Driving security technology evaluations and proof-of-concepts
• Building cross-organisational relationships and influencing the architecture team and stakeholders
• Supporting the security technologies lifecycle
• Working with other architects to ensure security is embedded in technology domain architectures
• Assisting other architects in peer reviews
• Evaluating and assessing security risk as part of application and system lifecycle management
• Staying current with security technologies and making value-driven recommendations
• Advising leadership on cybersecurity issues, systems, processes, products and services
• Maintaining oversight of system design and implementation to ensure appropriate security controls
• Serving as a cybersecurity expert to contribute to the overall system architecture

We’re looking for individuals with a mission focus, collaboration mindset, and a commitment to high security and safety standards. You’ll learn lessons and share them across the team. Military background is not required, but you should understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

• Self-starter with the ability to prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment
• Forward-facing—experienced in talking to customers both internal and external
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving aptitude
• Highly organised, discrete, outcome-focused, with a can-do attitude
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• Able to articulate and solve complex security problems using data and intelligence
• Collaborative approach to teamwork, able to constructively challenge
• Ability to interpret complex business and…