Role: Lead Architect REF 99291
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid/Warrington – at least 2 days per week in office
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead Architect for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD ARCHITECT
- Act as the domain lead architect within their area (Shared layer 3 system), accountable for design integrity and secure-by-design practices.
- Translate business and risk requirements into secure architectural designs across IT and OT systems.
- Develop security architecture artefacts (e.g. threat models, design patterns, blueprints) in alignment with strategic frameworks and regulatory expectations.
- Support and guide projects through architecture governance and risk assessment.
- Provide technical leadership to less experienced architects and engineers, supporting career development and capability uplift.
- Collaborate across architecture, cyber, and delivery functions to ensure architectural alignment and risk mitigation.
- Perform security assurance activities including design reviews and architecture assessments for new and evolving solutions.
- Influence key design and investment decisions by providing expert-level risk insight and solution options to stakeholders.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Security Architecture Framework, providing insight into domain-specific trends, vulnerabilities, and technologies.
- Maintain current knowledge of cyber threats and security technologies within the relevant domain.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD ARCHITECT
- IT skillset – Virtualisation, directorate services, management, monitoring, updating
- Some OT experience/exposure
- Cross domain solutions would be a massive plus
- Clear deliverables where they’ve lead multimillion £ deliveries
- Large scale deployment of virtualisation platforms, private clouds & modern infrastructure deliveries
- A minimum of English and Math's A-C GCSE.
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