Senior Security Technical Architect at Anson Mccade, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate

• Start Date: 20 July 2026

• Location: Hybrid / On-site required

• Duration: 12 months (plus extension options)

• Key Skills: Security Technical & Enterprise Architecture, Security Assurance, Cyber & Information Security

This senior, hands-on role combines deep technical security expertise with enterprise-level architectural oversight across a diverse portfolio of technology, infrastructure, and transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor and critical challenger, ensuring solutions are secure by design, aligned with organizational controls, and meet governance requirements.

• Technical Security Architecture: Deliver hands-on security architecture and low-level designs across cloud, network, identity, access, data protection, and segmentation domains.

• Design Review & Challenge: Review and challenge internal and supplier high/low-level designs to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and organizational security objectives.

• Risk & Threat Management: Produce threat models, risk assessments, control mappings, and exception assessments.

• Standards & Guardrails: Define, maintain, and refine reusable security patterns, technical guardrails, and reference architectures.

• Governance & Assurance: Provide design assurance review reports, evidence of compliance for audits, and executive-level risk summaries for senior stakeholders.

• Project Engagement: Engage early in project lifecycles to embed secure-by-design principles and define security testing requirements.

• Supplier Assurance: Support third-party risk assessments and supplier onboarding activities.

• Essential: 5+ years in cyber/information security with hands-on experience embedding secure-by-design principles. Experience working within formal governance frameworks (design reviews, stage gates, audits).

• Desirable: Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, Azure Security, TOGAF, or equivalent. Experience in public sector delivery, large-scale transformations, or security operations.

• Technical: Strong knowledge of cloud, network, identity, and data security. Ability to create threat models, technical guardrails, and security testing requirements. Experience with Microsoft security technologies and secure cloud landing zones is highly desirable.

• General: Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and analytical skills. Ability to balance hands-on technical input with broad enterprise oversight.