Senior Technology Architect - Security

We’re currently navigating significant and ambitious change at Nationwide, the world’s largest building society.
A lot of this change involves significant technology shifts and ways of working. Cloud is a significant part of that Change. This represents an interesting challenge for a Senior Security Architect, who will join the team and help to develop our technology strategy; own security products; lead in the development of architecture artefacts; develop new agile ways of working for our security solution architects and security engineers; and support the delivery of both complex and agile solutions across our business portfolio.
Enterprise Security Technology, the practice you will be joining, is at the core of Nationwide’s security architecture and engineering thinking. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for engaging across the domains to understand the business objectives and to help articulate their security needs. You will also be responsible for looking over the horizon to understand where Nationwide should be going and help to identify suitable enterprise security objectives and roadmaps to get us there.
You also need to be a self-starter, who can influence key stakeholders, communicate effectively across domains and lead in the delivery of our Enterprise Security Architecture.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.Who we are looking forYou will be working in a multi-disciplinary high-performance team developing our security architecture. A lot of your work is going to be around the development of strategy, roadmaps, transition states, delivery T-shirt sizing; developing architecture artefacts and guardrails (Reference architectures, principles, standards, patterns, etc.).
You are not going to be developing the architecture in isolation. You will also have to work across domains with many stakeholders to ensure that you and your team’s work is contributing to the bigger picture rather acting as an ivory tower.
In addition to this, you are a security subject matter expert. You will also be engaging projects and programmes to help them solve complex security problems and ensure that they are able to demonstrate compliance to Nationwide’s security policies.
Needless to say, being a self-starter and having strong time-management and prioritisation skills is going to be important in this role.What you'll be doingWe would like to see good architecture experience in one or more of the following:
Strong knowledge or experience of Enterprise Security Architecture policies, standards, principles, controls and frameworks (e.g. NIST).
Strong understanding of Cloud security (preferably AWS and Azure).
Strong knowledge and experience of federated identity access management.
Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining architecture artefacts / guardrails.
Leadership – as you may oversee a few solution architects and / or engineers for both line-management and task management duties and you may be tasking other resources on projects.
A strong understanding of security of microservices, containerization, API and security-automation and orchestration (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, Terraform).
Experience regarding the role of the Senior Architect in planning and delivery, these are the kinds of experience we would like to see from you:
Experience of defining strategies, standards and best practices.
Developing and implementing technology roadmaps.
Experience designing and architecting security solutions.
Knowledge of implementing change.
Experience offering architectural advice, consultancy and thought leadership on how to secure systems and services.
Nice to have:
Knowledge of SaaS Cloud security and experience in delivering security in this space.
Certifications in CISSP / CCSP or equivalent are highly advantageous or cloud / security based certifications
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together.You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
Say it straight - Thisisabout being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
Push for better - Thisisabout aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
Get it done - Thisisabout prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.The extras you'll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
Life assurance worth 8x your salary
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
Access to an annual performance related bonus
Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
30 days holiday, pro rata
Individual healthcare cover
Why work for us?Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.
As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
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