# Security Architect

> PIC · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2026-05-08

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** IT Production Services

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Security Architect to enable business outcomes by making security effective, proportionate, and embedded across technology design, delivery, and change. This role plays a critical part in ensuring security is designed into solutions from the outset, supporting innovation, strengthening cyber resilience, and helping the business make informed decisions on risk, controls, and technology adoption.

**Responsibilities:**

-   Design and assure security controls aligned to business objectives, threat landscape, and regulatory requirements
-   Provide pragmatic security advice to business and technical stakeholders
-   Work with technology, data and solution architects to embed security best practice across design and delivery
-   Deliver security architecture artefacts supporting change, run and operational activity
-   Assess threats, risks and controls for new services, technologies and third‑party solutions
-   Define and maintain security standards, patterns, designs and roadmaps, communicating risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical audiences

## Requirements

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Proven background in security architecture or engineering roles within regulated, corporate or consulting environments with

**Technical Attributes:**

-   Strong working knowledge of public cloud security concepts, particularly Microsoft Azure and its related security capabilities
-   Strong grounding in security architecture principles and application of controls across cloud, identity, compute, network and software domains
-   Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management concepts, including authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle management
-   Strong understanding of compute and network security concepts, including segmentation, hardening, resilience, and monitoring
-   Good understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) security considerations, including model, data, access, and governance risks
-   Solid understanding of modern threat landscapes, vulnerability patterns, and emerging risks,
-   Experience designing, reviewing and challenging security controls, assessing new technologies, and translating regulatory requirements into practical solutions

**Personal Attributes:**

-   Clear, structured communicator with the ability to articulate security architectures, risks and recommendations

-   Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with both a technical and non-technical audience, able to balance security and business outcomes
-   Analytical and pragmatic problem‑solver, including evaluation of emerging technologies and associated risks
-   Organised, able to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines

## Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.

## Apply

[Apply at PIC](https://apply.workable.com/pension-services-corporation-limited/j/877B6D05D6/apply)

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