Security Architect

***Security Architect required in Welwyn Garden city ****
Duration- 6 months with scope for extension
Hybrid working 2 days a week office based.
Day rate competitive via Umbrella only
My client is a blue chip FMCG and retail brand that serve millions of customers every week from all over the globe. With over 6,000 stores internationally my client is a well-known household name that offer several exciting opportunities.
This consultant request is to support the ongoing Security risks assessments by the team for the wider client estate. Historically, we receive and honour over 200+ such requests and enable the business and tech teams with appropriate security advice. The skills needed is also niche and recruiting permanents with these skills is also a challenge.
* You will be responsible for augmenting the Security Architecture team with speciality skills and help scale our security presence across the wider technology and business teams.
* Provide engineering and product teams with direction and guidance for all security matters. This is in the form of conducting risk assessments to enable the business to make informed security choices.
* Help product teams deliver new business features securely while balancing and clearly
articulating technical and business risk.
* You will be expected to drive the deployment/integration of security capabilities into
engineering teams within the product domain.
* You will drive security initiatives such as developing security requirements, threat
modelling, strengthening application security, vulnerability reduction, etc., with the
engineering teams.
* Reducing friction is paramount and we are all about fast feedback within existing workflows,
not adding another console for a developer to check.
* Support teams in a collaborative manner in matters of mobile application, web application,
cloud and data security, with threat modelling, risk treatment and security advice across all
security domains. If you can raise a PR to fix a security issue, do so. * Facilitate risk remediation but also challenge decisions and status-quo.
* Facilitate in assurance activities like penetration testing, purple testing, app assurance.
Experience required.
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