Enterprise Security Architect - AI Specialist
The Enterprise Security Architect plays a pivotal role in ensuring the secure and successful delivery of products and services across the organisation, while continually enhancing the overall security posture. Operating within a fast-paced and evolving change environment, the individual will act as a trusted security design authority, providing expert consultancy, guidance, and technical direction to projects and business stakeholders. Drawing on experience in Information Security, the role ensures solutions align with statutory requirements, industry regulations, and security best practices.
This specialist position focuses on the secure development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence platforms, products, and services, embedding security, compliance, and governance at every stage. Working closely with architects and engineers, the role supports the delivery of innovative AI-enabled solutions while taking ownership of the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of AI security controls, frameworks, and protective layers. Success in this role requires a strong foundation in information security, broad knowledge across multiple security disciplines, and experience in solution architecture, systems design, and integration. A particular emphasis will be placed on AI technologies, enablement, and secure adoption. Expertise in AI governance frameworks, relevant legislation and regulations, and industry-leading practices is required. A solid understanding of AI methodologies and domains, with proven experience embedding effective security governance, controls, and guardrails that enable innovation while managing threats, is also necessary.
- Develop security requirement sets, blueprints, and patterns based on new technologies across the organisation.
- Manage workloads and product delivery using Agile methods, including working with Initiatives, Epics, User Stories, and Tasks.
- Collaborate with other Enterprise Security Architects to propose and develop technical solutions to meet Product Owner demand and break work down into value slices for prioritisation.
- Assess new technology options across the organisation to develop proof of concept and proof of value implementations while working closely with architects and engineers to assess the security needs and requirements of solutions and technical services.
- Collaborate with architects, Product Owners, and Heads of Product to assess and approve security requirements and controls across multiple technology domains.
- Develop architectural models and artefacts using modelling software through collaborative sessions and working within custom meta-models.
- Design and implement different AI approaches to specific tasks, requirements, or problems using extensive knowledge of existing Artificial Intelligence approaches, tools, and services (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and other commercial services).
- Utilise previous experience in frameworks and standards such as NIST 800, ISO 27001, ISF SOGP, PCI-DSS, EUGDPR.
- Experience of Enterprise Security Architecture, hands-on technical information security, and designing and implementing security solutions (required).
- Usage of modelling tools such as SparxEA and Archi with understanding of technical security architectural principles and technologies (required).
- Sound understanding of how to model threats as well as the controls necessary to reduce or mitigate them using both process and technology (required).
- Understanding of how business strategy, regulation, and technical constraints influence organisational responses to cyber security (required).
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills. Able to communicate and promote Information Security at all levels (both technical and non-technical stakeholders) (required).
- Experience of both agile and waterfall focused environments (required).
- Security Certifications such as SABSA, CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CEH are an advantage (nice-to-have).
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
- Financial compensation, pension, and bonus schemes.
- Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education.
- Access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid working: employees can work from home up to 4 days with 1 day office time built in.
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