Lead Enterprise Security Architect

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About this role

Ensuring the inherent security in BT’s Digital architecture and services expected by our customers, and constantly appraising the risk BT faces from the wider connected world, this role assures the protection of BT Group’s brands and reputation as the cyber threat evolves. This role is accountable for the Digital architectural strategy and associated evolution roadmaps for security capabilities across Digital, ensuring alignment with broader BT Digital & Security Architecture and leveraging cost optimisation through timely review of market capabilities and adoption of new capabilities in a timely fashion. The role works in collaboration with the Digital Architect’s team to ensure alignment to the wider Digital architecture and to be the security point of contact in wider architectural initiatives.

You'll have the following responsibilities

• You will create, own, drive and support an architectural vision for Digital
• Your scope will be all aspects of cyber security consumed within BT Digital (a vertical lens), many of which will be jointly owned with the relevant sub-domain security architects (a set of horizontal lenses)
• On behalf of the Digital Architecture team, you will own the day-to-day relationship with the security architects and on behalf of security architecture the relationship back into the various enterprise architects in Digital
• You’ll experiment with technology – running trials, proofs of concept and even building minimum viable products to accelerate our journey
• You will scout ahead on change in the industry, BT incubation and BT applied research and communicate your architectural assessment and insight.
• You will have a specific focus on the architecture areas that Digital Architecture also own from an engineering perspective: Cloud, Integration, Engineering Tools and will be expected to dive deeper into the security architecture of these areas as needed.
• Work closely with the security leads across Digital to understand where technology can reduce risk, increase efficiency and improve their effectiveness.
• You will ensure our security architecture enables instead of conflicts with Digital's wider adoption of agile, DevOps & SRE and a goal of 'NoOps'.

You'll have the following skills & experience

• Experience as an Enterprise Architect for 5+ years, in a large organisation. You will have lead material business change through enterprise architecture
• Recognised as an experienced technical expert within areas of cloud computing & digital infrastructure
• Experience of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks including SABSA, and their relevance to the practice of Enterprise Architecture. SABSA certification not essential
• Qualified or equivalent demonstrable experience of CISSP, CISSM or similar

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 15% on target bonus
• Car allowance 
• Pension scheme
• Shares Plan 
• Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etc. 
• Discounted BT products

About BT

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.

We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT

How to Apply

It's easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Don't worry if you need to make changes - you'll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application!