The role:

• Working with Cyber and central security architecture define a security strategy to support the IT initiative within Wholesale bank
• Provide end-to-end ownership of security solutions delivered to meet requirements, delivering the architecture required to realize both functional and non-functional capabilities that aligns to the overall security architecture.
• Provide oversight of WSIT projects to ensure alignment to security architecture and correct consideration of cyber security has been factored into designs.
• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience of working with stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrates excellent situational awareness and ability to appropriately react to a changing landscape
• Performance driven nature and excellent problem solving capability
• Manage a small team of security architects
• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions utilizing standard enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions utilizing cloud technologies (private/hybrid/public).
• Deep knowledge of container based systems such as docker, kubernetes and cloud foundry

What you will need to succeed in the role: (Minimum Qualification and Skills Required)

• Experience in an enterprise environment including an understanding of traditional processes and procedures and how they may impact a digital transformation.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management, OAUTH2, JWT, SSO, SAML, PKI, Certificate management (MUST HAVE)
• Securing highly available Internet banking application.
• Forgerock experience essential.
• Solution architecture skills required.
• Ability to produce Solution design documents with UML diagrams.
• Knowledge of client side applications and microservices architecture.
• Familiar with microservices and REST based API's
• Knowledge of both relational and noSQL database technologies
• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience of working with stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders.
• Experience of automating processes and procedures end-to-end.
• Define and sell a vision, but with the ability to deliver incrementally and provide immediate value to the stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts
• Understanding of modern development and associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and practices to design, build and continuously improve an automated end-to-end factory for software delivery, through the route-to-live and into production.
• Experience of CI/D pipelines, modern deployment and release methodologies including automated configuration and provisioning at scale.

12 Months rolling contract
London - Remote.
Rate - negotiable, inside IR35