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Cyber Security Architect

Location: Remote UK, United Kingdom

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

We are looking for Cyber Security Architects to join our growing team. As a Cyber Security Architect, you'll work on complex systems provided by Thales and provide specialist security architecture, technical leadership and guidance, to enable Thales to devise, develop and maintain reliable, secure, accreditable and economically sustainable security solutions to meet the project needs.

You will advise on the development of high level security compliant architecture and contribution to the design of the preliminary and detailed designs of the solution: it includes the study of alternatives and a risk assessment.

Consult on potential security components architectures (e.g. SIEM, IAM, gateways, detection and deception capabilities...)

Evaluate architectures against Business Line policy and major cyber security standards & regulation frameworks (NIST, ISO, JSP, etc.)

Produce justification for architectural choices

Ensure technical coordination across a multi-discipline team

Present, recommend and demonstrate solutions to customer representatives, peers or technical teams

Conduct security related tasks including:

• Production of engineering and architecture reports, specifications and design documents
• Verification of architectures and solutions against established requirements
• Development of documentation to enable the accreditation and certification of solutions
• Development and delivery of security training for a specific user community, taking into account their existing knowledge and training needs based upon the required learning outcomes.
• Collaborate/interact with cyber suppliers/vendors for technical assessment of cyber products in order to select a suitable one

Ideally you have graduated in Engineering or Computer Science or hold relevant industry certifications (CISSP, Cisco, CCP, etc)

Have experience of advising on security solutions taking into account customer needs

You want to secure the solutions in collaboration with the domain architects

You are seen as a value proposition on crucial and sensitive programmes

You have the ability to define architectures on your own or with other specialists

You are proficient with Infrastructure Security Design, Security Supervision Design, and Information Systems Security (ISS)

You can advise and give support to the rest of the team

Familiar with Risk Analysis, Network Security, Cryptography, Identity & Access Management (software/hardware development, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, cloud technologies)

Able to monitor and measure risk as well as compliance

You have the ability to work with customers and technical teams

Domain knowledge Defence, Nuclear, Government, Aerospace, CNI, Transport

Risk Management and Accreditation

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas: Room and attention to personal development, build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex solution.

Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path, build an international career within a leading Engineering Group