About this role
Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in IT, Engineering, or Architecture
- Demonstrated experience in architecture or technical design roles
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and navigating governance processes
- Track record of developing secure, scalable, standards-aligned solutions
- Ability to translate business requirements into high-quality technical solutions
- Understanding of architecture domains including application, data, infrastructure, and security
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Proficiency in producing architecture artefacts using a modelling tool
- Willingness to undertake overseas travel
- Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure IT systems and networks, embedding security across the assigned business domain in line with business objectives and national security expectations.
- Contribute to the design of IT services aligned with our security roadmaps, design patterns, and reference architectures, protecting IT and OT environments from global threats.
- Understand business objectives, user needs, and security obligations.
- Ensure IT service designs adhere to our enterprise security roadmaps and reference architectures.
- Analyse cyber risks and support security testing in collaboration with Information Assurance.
- Research and deliver new artefacts to enhance our IT Architecture function.
- Promote high team performance and a diverse, inclusive environment.
- Uphold high standards in health, safety, security, and quality.
Technologies
- Architect
- Support
- Security
- Embedded
More
We are recruiting a Domain Security Architect for our site at RG7 4PR, between Reading and Basingstoke, where free onsite parking is available. The salary starts from £50,60p.a., depending on suitability, qualifications, and experience. We operate a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday off, and consider flexible working requests. Our benefits include 270 hours of annual leave, a contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9% to 13% of pensionable pay, family-friendly leave, professional development funding, an Employee Assistance Programme, Occupational Health Services, life assurance, everyday spending discounts, and special leave for volunteering, public service, and caring.
last updated 46 week of 2026