Data Security Architect Location: Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Halifax, Edinburgh, London Duration: 6 Months Bank is having 2 major initiatives kicking off in the near future Modernising our data loss management Reinventing our cryptography ecosystem Role Description Experience on data discovery tools, controlling the movement of data, developing governance for the application of security controls Understanding modern development methodologies and how to embed things like ci/cd pipelines. Develop an orchestration tier to manage all crypto tools (KMS, HSM, certificates, secrets, etc) and a presentation tier (CLI and API) so we can abstract the developers from any crypto assets Define the solution architecture of the project, translating business requirements into IT solutions – taking into account existing IT systems and complexities. Validate and QA of the architectural components and building blocks that will be used to construct compliant, secure and trustworthy security services. Key Responsibilities Technical ownership of key CSO deliverables, Data Security Designs, HLD/LLD Participate in the architecture board to discuss strategy about services and their integration with existing technologies within the organisation. Working with architects and engineers to collaboratively define the mid and low-level security requirements into a collection of design and engineering activities to ensure that the programme is delivering against agreed security standards and principles Proactively identifying security risks not exclusively as part of the design/engineering process Owning the end-to-end security view for specific platform components, shared services or application integration items Performing threat modelling against architectures, engineered solutions, and as-is platforms Ensuring that security activities are aligned with the wider security strategy Working in a multi-disciplined autonomous team delivering security value on behalf the team Key Skills GCP/Azure Data Security Design, Architecture, Engineering Data Security, Data Loss Prevention DLP tools Symantec, Hashi Corp Vault, Cryptography, PKI, HSM, Cloud KMS Cloud Certificate Management) Certifications such as: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate Google Certified Security Engineer Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP) Experience working within an agile framework Experience working with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud