Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber Security – Security Solutions
Salary range: £72,000 - £100,000 per annum
Location: Hybrid - with occasional travel to head office hubs Glasgow / Newcastle.

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Our Team:

At Virgin Money, our Security Solutions team plays a crucial role in safeguarding our organisation. We are on an exciting journey with a bold vision to expand and enhance our security and cyber operations.

Our Security Solutions Architecture and Design team is pivotal in driving our Cyber Security Transformation Programme. This team is responsible for delivering innovative cyber solutions architecture and designs. They work closely with internal colleagues and external partners to ensure that changes across Cyber are managed and controlled effectively, developing robust, secure, and resilient solutions to protect our customers' and colleagues' data and services.

As a Cyber Lead Solutions Architect, you will be an integral part of this dynamic, high-performing team. You will be accountable for driving innovation and delivering solutions that align with our Cyber strategy, including the end-to-end design of solutions and platforms.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Crafting cyber architecture, solutions, and designs: Produce great artifacts that meet our business needs, align with our architecture strategy, and ensure security and deliverability.
• Identifying technology risks: Spot risks from new or existing technologies and raise them at the right level.
• Leading solutions delivery: Deliver solutions architects that embody our purpose: "Being a secure digital bank our customers can trust."
• Promoting platform reuse and enhancement: Drive the reuse and enhancement of our platforms and assets.
• Ensuring design adherence: Ensure our designs stick to platform and project commitments and meet our high standards.
• Evolving design practices: Play a key role in evolving our design practices, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with stakeholders: Work with Business, Enterprise Architecture, and Technology colleagues to evaluate design options and make solid recommendations.
• Hosting design forums and workshops: Run forums and workshops with developers, operational staff, and business colleagues, often involving third-party vendors.
• Providing specialist knowledge: Bring your expertise in Cyber solutions architecture and design to the table.
• Driving innovation and improvement: Enhance our delivery through innovation, continuous improvement, and automation to support change.
• Presenting to senior stakeholders: Present solutions, roadmaps, and other architectural artifacts to senior stakeholders across Technology Operations & Cyber Security teams and other CIO areas.
• Mentoring: Brining your experience and knowledge into the team and proving support and mentoring to others.

We Need You to Have:

• Proven experience in a similar role: Demonstrate your ability to deliver effective cyber solutions.
• Experience with Cyber technologies: Work with a range of Cyber technologies, both on-prem and cloud.
• Expertise in solution architecture: Define robust solution architecture.
• Familiarity with Industry frameworks: Understand and apply the Security NIST framework and have experience delivering solutions based on industry best practice and regulated environments.
• Experience in various environments: Work in both waterfall and agile environments.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Build credibility with Business and Technology stakeholders in shaping solutions to business problems.
• Understanding of design governance: Apply design governance principles effectively.

It’s a Bonus if You Have:

• Experience in financial organizations: Deliver cyber solutions in a financial context.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust: Understand Zero Trust and modern identity-centric security architectures.
• Familiarity with Azure Cyber Security: Know Azure Cyber Security Architecture and development of solutions in Public cloud.
• Awareness of emerging threats: Be aware of threats like quantum computing and ransomware, and how to mitigate them.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.