Senior Security Architect

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Senior Security Architect
Job no: 502269 Work type: Permanent Full Time Location: London - Hybrid Categories: Information Security
How will your role contribute at NewDay?
At NewDay, we want to build the best consumer lending experiences in the world helping people move forward with credit. We are looking for a security architect who is passionate about helping us secure Credit Card brands such as Aqua, Marbles, Amazon, AO, Argos, and John Lewis & Partners.
We deploy to our platform hundreds of times per week, and our application security engineers enable NewDay engineering by:
Building a secure culture, working with teams to embed secure practices & secure by design principles
Collaborate with our projects and product teams as a point of contact to provide security requirements and ensure that risks are managed
Develop security controls and architecture principles, balancing industry standard methodologies with risk appetite
Working with product owners and managers so that we can explain and understand our security challenges
Contribute to development of security strategies and roadmaps
What you will get
Ability to shape and influence how we build and secure our platform
Get to work with modern technology stacks and tooling
Working with our outstanding engineering teams!
Ongoing training and attendance to industry events
Flexible-working arrangements
Your Skills and Experience
ESSENTIAL
Specialist in security architecture, from an end-to-end perspective, across different business domains
Understanding of distributed systems design, building for resilience and cloud architectures
Solid understanding of Secure SDLC, CI/CD, DevSecOps methodologies
Experience in balancing commercial, regulatory, and operational requirements
Experience working with autonomous agile teams
A high-level understanding of security principles, control frameworks, threat modelling, and cloud security risks.
Desirable
Worked in FinTech organisations, and in consumer lending or card issuing
Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks and standards, e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR
Relevant certifications
Your Personal Attributes
You are a proven security architect who can lead and advise across different areas of the business
Builds partnerships through teamwork and pulling together
Demonstrates good judgement on security risks
Able to influence peers to do the right thing - provides convincing and persuasive rationale focusing on risk and "the why"
Diplomatic, emotionally thoughtful, listens and is open to other points of view
Able to communicate sophisticated technical topics in straightforward terms to a diverse group of team members
Challenges conventional thinking and demonstrates a "continuous improvement" demeanour which is building for tomorrow
Inclusion at NewDay
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We will not discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and parental, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the application and interview process.
Advertised: 25 Apr 2024 GMT Daylight Time Applications close: 24 May 2024 GMT Daylight Time
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