Security Architect

🕒 May 8

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Pension Insurance Corporation plc

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201 - 500 employees

💰 Private Equity Round on 2018-06

The purpose of PIC is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders. PIC provides secure retirement incomes through comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management, as well as exceptional customer service. At half year 2023, PIC had insured 339,900 pension scheme members and had £44.9 billion in financial investments, accumulated through the provision of tailored pension insurance buyouts and buy-ins to the trustees and sponsors of UK defined benefit pension schemes. PIC has made total pension payments of almost £12 billion to its policyholders. Clients include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals and the public sector. PIC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority (FRN 454345).

📋 Description

• Design and assure security controls aligned to business objectives, threat landscape, and regulatory requirements • Provide pragmatic security advice to business and technical stakeholders • Work with technology, data and solution architects to embed security best practice across design and delivery • Deliver security architecture artefacts supporting change, run and operational activity • Assess threats, risks and controls for new services, technologies and third‑party solutions • Define and maintain security standards, patterns, designs and roadmaps, communicating risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical audiences

🎯 Requirements

• Proven background in security architecture or engineering roles within regulated, corporate or consulting environments • Strong working knowledge of public cloud security concepts, particularly Microsoft Azure and its related security capabilities • Strong grounding in security architecture principles and application of controls across cloud, identity, compute, network and software domains • Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management concepts, including authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle management • Strong understanding of compute and network security concepts, including segmentation, hardening, resilience, and monitoring • Good understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) security considerations, including model, data, access, and governance risks • Solid understanding of modern threat landscapes, vulnerability patterns, and emerging risks • Experience designing, reviewing and challenging security controls, assessing new technologies, and translating regulatory requirements into practical solutions • Clear, structured communicator with the ability to articulate security architectures, risks and recommendations • Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with both a technical and non-technical audience, able to balance security and business outcomes • Analytical and pragmatic problem-solver, including evaluation of emerging technologies and associated risks • Organised, able to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines

🏖️ Benefits

• private medical insurance • 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays) • generous pension scheme • opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan