Job summary
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Are you passionate about Cyber Security and Enterprise Architecture? Do you have senior-level experience as a Cyber Security Professional?
Join us to shape the security technology and tooling strategy for HMRC and influence the UK Public Sector. Enjoy a healthy work/life balance while making a significant impact.
HMRC are now one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world and are continuing to spend the next five years modernising our IT Landscape across Multi-Hybrid Cloud Platform. Working in one of the most complex infrastructures across Europe with significant investment and over 1000 changes monthly impacting over 600 services. Security Modernisation is critical to this initiative and our collective success. Now is a great time to join us as we establish a team of outstanding people in the fields of Security Architecture, Risk Assessment and Testing who will create and run these new and improved technology services.
This is a chance to work on services that matter and affect the lives of millions of citizens as well as delivering Government Security services directly across circa 400 Government Departments and Arms-Length Bodies (ALBs).
Job description
HMRC Security are part of HMRC’s Chief Digital Information Office (CDIO) and support the department in assessing business and reputational risks in one of the largest IT estates in Europe.
Cyber Security Technical Services (CSTS) and the Government Security Centre for Cyber (Cyber GSeC) are an integral part of HMRC Security. We are responsible for ensuring everyone has capability to fulfil their security responsibilities and develop individual capability to detect, prevent and respond to security risks and threats.
Our vision is to be recognised as a centre of expertise and excellence, working collaboratively across government to deliver holistic, customer centric cyber security services. This includes consultancy support that continually evolves to emerging technologies and the ever-changing threat and risk landscape.
It is an exciting time to be part of our active and encouraging Cybersecurity and Architecture communities, working within HMRC and across HMG.
As an Enterprise Security Architect and Principal Cyber Security Professional, you will work in a multidisciplined team in Cyber Security Technical Services (CSTS). You will be part of our active and encouraging Cyber Security and Architecture communities, within HMRC and across government.
You will collaborate and play a leading role with senior business and technical partners, to deliver appropriate risk based technical security advice and guidance. This enables the secure delivery of His Majesty’s Government solutions and services. You will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy and setting direction for technical and business change developing the capability through coaching, mentoring and training.
You will have the opportunity to promote consistent security architecture across a multi-billion-pound portfolio of business transformation projects including cross-government work within HMRC. This will include creation, maintenance, communication and evolution of security technology and tooling roadmaps, design patterns and reference architectures that will drive adoption of modern technology meeting HMRC’s business driven need towards rationalised strategic platforms.
In addition, you may be encouraged to undertake line management responsibilities developing and managing a team.
You may be expected to own and develop CSTS capabilities and/or services.
