About this role
Security Architect - SC Cleared - Inside IR35
- *Location:*London
- *Type:*Home based with occasional travel to London or Croydon
- Rate: £600 - £700
- Status: Inside
- *Length:*Initial 6 months
Role Overview
The Security Architect will validate and complete the security architecture for the programme, ensuring designs are Secure by Design, supported by discovery-phase outputs, and taken through to verified high-level and low-level designs ahead of beta.
Key Responsibilities
- Verify and develop security architectural artefacts, including high-level and low-level designs, building on discovery-phase outputs, using programme architecture tooling, aligning to governance processes and developing Secure by Design (SbD) artefacts
- Identify and close gaps in discovery outputs required to complete security designs
- Engage directly with programme stakeholders and the wider community to gather information, run options analysis, workshop solutions and analyse documentation
- Engage with the PPPT and wider Home Office security community to ensure solutions are compliant and informed by wider Home Office knowledge and experience
- Develop security architectural artefacts compliant with programme and wider organisational standards, including Secure by Design processes
- Validate security options and recommendations through programme peer engagements, design forums and technical design authorities
- Work hands-on with alpha-phase development and DevOps resources to explain agreed architectures and incorporate feedback as architectures evolve
- Support requirements development for future procurements and development activity, informed by discovery and alpha-phase hypothesis testing
Required Skills & Experience
- Security architecture delivery across large, complex IT landscapes in a regulated, critical environment
- Broad experience across security architecture styles (e.g. cloud, distributed, monolithic)
- A pragmatic approach to picking up architecture work started by previous resources, quickly assessing what is needed and driving to conclusions
- Excellent stakeholder management, including influencing senior stakeholders and negotiating contentious architectural issues to reach consensus
- Experience managing and recording key design decisions
- Good understanding of programme reference architecture and governance processes
- Able to manage people, navigate conflict, problem-solve, distil key discussion points, organise work and communicate effectively
Reasonable Adjustments
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
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About security roles for ex-police
Security management, operations and consultancy roles. Years of operational policing — command, incident response, public order — translate directly into corporate security, and employers in this sector actively rate police experience.
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- Police experience explicitly valued
What security roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Security officer (SIA) | £24,000–£29,000 |
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