Date Posted: 2022-09-12-07:00
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBRMAN111: Exchange Quay Manchester, 5 Exchange Quay, Salford, M5 3EF
Job Title: Security Architect
Locations: Manchester / Gloucester / London / Remote Options
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Summary of Role
A fantastic opportunity to join Raytheon UK in London, Manchester or Gloucester. We develop software using a variety of Agile methodologies. You will be part of a growing team, working alongside world-class partner organizations.
Main Duties of the Position
To be the Security Architect for a particular domain or engagement responsible for mission-critical software solutions. You will be part of a leadership team collaborating with agile software teams.
Key Responsibilities:
* Discover, define, and evolve strategic security architectures for complex software-based systems applicable at an enterprise or organizational level.
* Work with the Solution Architect to ensure the appropriate security is applied to the architectural roadmap for your domain, considering the horizons required to support your Product Manager.
* Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure security architecture designs balance risk with functional and non-functional requirements and align with broader architectural goals.
* Act as the Subject Matter Expert for the domain or engagement and communicate risks and impacts of design changes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Counsel risk owners on security implications of decisions, providing clarity on the trade-offs of their decisions.
* Key contributor and independent reviewer at enterprise-level architecture reviews.
* Personal development of key technical team members through coaching and mentoring.
* Act as an authority on tool, process, and environment selection.
* Keep abreast of relevant technology changes and incorporate them into security architecture roadmaps as applicable.
* Bring technical context of the wider business to your domain.
* Promote and share technical decisions and choices made in your domain with the wider business.
* Set the security guardrails for your domain, ensuring alignment to organizational guardrails.
Candidate Requirements
Essential Skills
The suitable candidate must have demonstrable experience as a security architect or security lead on projects of significant size and complexity. They will have extensive skills in the following areas:
* Designing secure systems for critical applications, particularly for high availability, scale, and resilience.
* Working with or in teams who use different software design paradigms, specifically Micro Services, Distributed Systems, Hexagonal Architecture, and Big Data Platforms.
* Articulating complex designs and concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
* Translating business outcomes into technical approaches.
* Influencing business and technical stakeholders to convey approaches and suggest ideas.
* Building productive working relationships with technical stakeholders.
* Creating high-level architectural roadmaps.
* Translating theoretical concepts into real-world designs.
* Designing secure architectures with cloud (and hybrid cloud) technologies and distributed systems.
* Applying control objectives in a context-appropriate manner.
* Structured and unstructured storage of data.
* Working in or with Agile teams using SCRUM or Kanban.
* Working in or with Agile teams utilizing secure development practices.
* Applying Zero Trust principles to system designs.
Desirable Skills
* Experience working with industry-standard frameworks such as ISO27001 & NCSC Cloud Security Principles.
* Experience building enterprise-level applications or services.
* Experience with high-performance distributed systems.
* Experience working within a SAFe delivery construct.
* Experience in Data Analytics and Visualization.
* Experience with Big Data Technologies.
* Experience practicing high-quality engineering practices such as TDD, Pair programming, strong encapsulation, DevOps techniques, and SOLID principles.
Key Behaviours
* Good interpersonal skills for customer liaison.
* Good written and oral communication skills.
* Good time management, organization, and prioritization skills.
* An inquisitive mind and a desire to promote innovation.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Willingness to travel if required.
About Raytheon UK
Raytheon UK is invested in the British workforce and the development of UK technology. Across the country, Raytheon UK employs 1,700 people and supports 8,000 jobs. As a prime contractor and major supplier to the U.K. Ministry of Defence, Raytheon continues to invest in research and development, supporting innovation and technological advances.
Security
All successful applicants must be eligible and willing to obtain SC clearance with the view to progressing to DV level, which would be sponsored by Raytheon UK.
Raytheon Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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