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Unit4

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1980

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Unit4 is a company that develops and delivers cloud-based enterprise software solutions focused on ERP, HCM, FP&A, Financial Management, and S2C. The solutions are designed to enhance productivity and collaboration within organizations, specifically tailored for people-centered and service-focused institutions like Professional Services, Public Sector, Nonprofit, and Higher Education. Unit4's platform integrates AI to optimize operations across finance, HR, and project management, aiming to improve user experience and organizational agility. Their solutions cater to roles such as CFOs, CHROs, and CIOs, providing them with the tools to drive strategic outcomes, performance, and adaptability within their organizations.

📋 Description

• Lead the security target-state architecture and multi-year roadmap, aligning risk reduction with business outcomes • Lead enterprise architecture assessments across Azure, Kubernetes, identity and access management, CI/CD pipelines, secure software development, and AI/LLM environments • Partner with Cloud Ops, Product Architecture, Product/Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture to embed security into platforms and product roadmaps • Develop security reference architectures and patterns aligned with Unit4’s security vision • Design and implement layered enterprise security architectures with defence-in-depth and resilience • Act as an architectural authority, providing guidance on security principles, technologies, and patterns • Ensure architecture decisions incorporate regulatory, customer, and audit requirements • Design secure multi-cloud architectures across networking, compute, data, containers, and serverless • Collaborate on security design, engineering, and implementation within Microsoft 365 and Entra ID ecosystems • Consult on Microsoft security tooling, including Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, endpoint management, Azure Network Security, and Conditional Access • Evaluate new cloud services and identify and mitigate risks before adoption • Develop secure Azure reference architectures for AKS, compute, storage, data services, key management, and data loss prevention • Mature security by design in Product through pipeline compliance checks, architecture review, and assurance • Contribute security nonfunctional requirements, reference patterns, and threat models to Product roadmaps • Contribute to enterprise blueprints, playbooks, and whitepapers • Uplift security knowledge across technical teams and advise technical and non-technical audiences

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10+ years’ experience in IT or cybersecurity • At least 3 years in a dedicated security architecture role • Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100), or Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) • Proven experience designing large-scale, secure enterprise solutions in complex organisations • Deep technical expertise across Azure, identity, network, endpoint, SaaS, and modern enterprise architectures • Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft security technologies, including Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Conditional Access, Entra ID governance, and PIM • Demonstrated experience delivering Zero Trust concepts in production environments • Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and automation tooling • Ability to articulate security risks and solutions to engineering teams and executive stakeholders • Knowledge of NIST, ISO27001, SOC reporting, CIS, MITRE ATT&CK, and CSA CCM is desirable • Experience with Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, and Python is desirable • Experience designing scalable hybrid or multi-cloud architectures is desirable • Prior experience in large enterprises, SaaS providers, or regulated sectors is desirable • Consulting-style capability in facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and outcome-based delivery • Ability to operate independently, manage multiple projects, and drive technical decisions • Strategic thinking and ability to connect long-term goals with short-term action

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy • Remote working opportunities • Global Wellbeing Days • Growth opportunities and tools and guidance for professional development • Talented colleagues, role models and mentors • Sustainability initiatives, including Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme • Safe and inclusive working environment • Employee Resource Groups • Potential security clearance/background checks handled according to local privacy laws