Principal Security Architect
Remote, UK, United Kingdom
Telefonica Tech
With the technology decisions you make today - Build secure digital resilience. Layer by layer.Company Description
Telefónica Tech (part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.
We serve more than 5.5m customers every day in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners. Global strategic hubs: Spain, Brazil, the UK, Germany.
The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end- to-end portfolio of market leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through: Cloud, Data & AI (Adatis), Enterprise Applications (Incremental), Workplace Services and Cyber Security & Networking.
Values: Open, Trusted and Bold
Job Description
The Principal Security Architect is a key role across our security portfolio. Responsible for developing reference architectures, client engagement, bid support, solution design and implementation.
The role will focus on deliver outstanding value, both in our offerings portfolio and across client engagements. Being the subject matter expert for in-depth security problems and requirements.
Additionally the role is focussed on driving the acceleration of our offerings, developing repeatable architectures and integration roadmaps. This requires close collaboration across geographies, internal and external teams and key vendor partners.
In this role you will:
- Work on highly strategic projects, setting a strategy that create clear business outcomes and demonstrable value, but should also serve as repeatable offerings across the client base.
- Communicate with a broad range of senior stakeholders, both internal and client facing and be responsible for defining the vision, principles and strategy for security architects.
- Recommend security design across several projects or technologies, defining reference architectures within an organisational or inter-organisational level.
- Demonstrate expert understanding of security concepts and apply them to a technical level, at the highest levels of risk and customer complexity.
- Influence and challenge clients to define clear outcomes and problem statements, from which to design appropriate solutions and opportunities.
- Effectively translate and accurately communicate security and risk implications at the most senior client levels, across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder expectations across high risk and complexity or under constrained timescales.
- Lead design and review solutions to complex problems with system architectures by defining and challenging patterns and principles.
- Identify new technology opportunities and design the use of these to meet customer needs and pain points.
- Provide mentorship across delivery team members, operating as an escalation expert for both internal and client facing issues.
- Create architectural blueprints for the bilateral onboarding of offerings in both the product and services space between TTUK&I and other Telefonica entities globally.
- Designing, developing, and continuously improving vulnerability assessment, security testing, and risk analysis methods.
- Designing, developing, and continuously improving the security posture, effectiveness and efficiency of the company's products and services
- Providing developers with remediation guidance and advice
- Evaluating cloud and security technologies
- Designing, developing, and continuously improving security operations
- Recommending and providing technical leadership for the implementation of security measures to protect information systems, networks, and data
- Building and developing the security architecture practice
- Collaborating across the CTO practices, championing security as a differentiator, ensuring it is designed into all relevant offerings.
- Be a trusted advisor to the most senior levels of client organisations.
- Work with strategic technology partners, keeping abreast of new advances and assessing their applicability to the customer landscape.
- Support strategic and complex client engagements and bid teams across the full gamut of security offerings and problems.
Qualifications
- Have a deeply evolved level of technical expertise, so you can act as an exemplar across multiple stakeholder personas.
- Be able to influence important business and architectural decisions, both in a client and local organisational environment.
- Demonstrate a coherent approach to the identification, validation and adoption of new technologies and methodologies.
- Be able to provide demonstrable expertise by solving significantly complex issues and problems.
- Monitor changes in the technical environment and assess whether risks are still at acceptable levels or whether previous decisions need to be revisited.
- Direct and influence others on best practice and policy, fostering a collegiate and collaborative approach to problem solving.
- Demonstrably strong knowledge of system architectures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of common security frameworks and their applicability to specific client or sectorial needs.
- Extensive experience of delivering across client engagements, collaborating with internal stakeholders to drive demonstrable value.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
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