Description
Across government, secure architecture has become a critical discipline in ensuring that digital services are resilient, trustworthy and designed to withstand an evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat landscape.
As a Principal Security Architect at Ofgem, you will provide strategic leadership and deep technical expertise to ensure that Ofgem's systems, services and programmes are designed and developed in line with security best practice and government standards.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading the embedment of secure-by-design principles across application development and digital services, ensuring consistent and effective implementation
- Providing expert advice and internal consultancy on complex security architecture challenges across multiple projects and technologies
- Leading security architecture assurance activities, aligned with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and NCSC guidance
- Influencing strategic and architectural decisions, working closely with senior stakeholders across Ofgem and wider government
- Developing and shaping long-term security architecture strategies, principles and standards across the organisation
- Leading the secure development lifecycle, ensuring appropriate tooling, practices and capabilities are in place across engineering teams
- Overseeing application resilience and security posture across the IT estate, reviewing security reports and driving improvements
- Providing thought leadership on security tooling, including static and dynamic analysis, and embedding these into delivery pipelines
- Managing and maintaining risk registers, ensuring risks to security, privacy and resilience are understood, managed and reduced in line with organisational risk appetite
- Leading the assurance of security architecture artefacts for projects and guiding teams through secure delivery practices
- Managing third-party relationships and ensuring that security requirements are effectively embedded into contracts and supplier deliverables
- Supporting governance and reporting through forums such as Technical Design Authority, providing clear insight into security performance and risks
We are looking for a highly experienced security architect with expert-level knowledge of security architecture, secure design and secure development practices. You will have a strong track record of leading on complex security challenges and influencing architectural decisions at an organisational level.
Alongside your salary of £63,443, OFGEM contributes £18,379 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies.