Application Security Solution Architect

Role overview:

We currently have a requirement for an Application Security Solution Architect for a contact role within the Privileged Access Management (PAM) Team of one of the top names in Financial Services.

Our client is seeking a skilled and experienced Application Architect to join their PAM team to be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and high-performance application design solutions that align with global initiative aimed at uplifting Privileged Access Management controls and capabilities in the organisation.

Start Date: ASAP​

Term: 6 Months

Location: Remote (UK).

Role Type: Contract (Inside IR35)

Key Deliverables:

• Managing the end-to-end solution design and responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns.
• Alongside the creation of high-level designs, will be required to record key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
• Presenting and sharing solutions to design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders.
• Providing technical thought leadership and direction to aligned project workstream and supporting the wider PAM Design team in producing designs and working solutions.

Essential Skills:

• Cybersecurity expertise, including significant experience and proven technical depth within:

-Software Application design and development

-Identity & access management

-Cryptography

-Infrastructure

-Data

-Cloud

• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level.
• Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes.
• Extensive experience in Application Design and API development.
• Strong knowledge of the architecture and design of Microservices:

-Understanding of Microservice orchestration and choreography.

-Mapping user stories to Microservices.

• Experience of working in a large Enterprise and Regulatory environments.
• Experience with Restful API Design, development and integration.
• Recent Experience working in Financial Services.
• Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management
• Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation
• Understanding of front-end technologies such as React and Angular
• Proficiency in programming languages such as NodeJS/JavaScript.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and automation tools.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes pod and container orchestration.
• Experience with cloud native architectures.
• BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
• Proficiency in Java.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms like GCP or AWS.
• Understanding of database technologies (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc).
• TOGAF.

Please note this requirement does not support overseas working and is Inside IR35.