Security Architect - Cryptography

We are currently looking for a Security Architect to join an existing team with one of our financial services clients.  The role will be to manage end-to-end solution design and will be responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns.  Experience of working in a financial services environment and in cryptographic projects will be required.
The role will also involve the creation of high-level designs, publishing new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.
 
Cybersecurity Expertise:
  • Architect secure, multi-tenant HSMaaS platforms for cryptographic key management and operations
  • Definition of cryptographic service models delivered via HSMs
  • Ability to design scalable, compliant HSM infrastructures
  • Integrate and optimise cloud and on-prem HSMs
  • Develop secure APIs and interfaces for HSM provisioning, access, and automation
  • Implement strong access controls, key isolation, and secure lifecycle management
  • Establish cryptographic policies for key creation, usage, rotation, and destruction
  • Embed monitoring, logging, and attestation for cryptographic operations and HSM events
  • Perform threat modelling and security architecture reviews focused on HSM services
  • Define disaster recovery, high availability, and secure backup strategies for HSMaaS
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security benchmarks, including CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and how they apply to cryptographic services
 
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Contract
29 April 2025
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