Cyber Security Architect/CISSP/TOGAF

Cyber Security Architect (Hybrid - London or Yorkshire)

Role: Cyber Security Architect Type: Contract 6months +

Rate: Up to £750 a day (Inside IR35) Location: Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite (London or Sheffield office)

Overview

An established national organisation is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Architect to help shape and safeguard its enterprise technology landscape. This is a senior, influential contract role ideal for someone who blends strategic architectural thinking with practical, delivery-focused cyber security expertise.

You will work across technology, business, and governance teams, ensuring solutions are secure, risk-aligned, and supportive of wider organisational objectives.

This role offers the opportunity to solve complex security challenges, influence senior stakeholders, and design security approaches that enable the business.

Skills & Experience Required

Core Competencies

• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.

• Ability to communicate clearly across written, verbal, and presentation formats.

• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues.

• Confidence to challenge constructively and guide teams toward better outcomes.

• Technical credibility across major security architecture domains, including:

• Servers, desktops, networks, storage

• Operating systems and databases

• Virtualisation and cloud platforms

Experience & Expertise

• Deep knowledge of Cybersecurity architecture principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Proven experience delivering security architecture across diverse technologies.
• Ability to operate strategically while supporting practical delivery.
• Commercial experience including vendor assessment, product selection, and contract considerations.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, competing priorities, and multi-stakeholder environments.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent experience in Cyber Security or Technology.
• Relevant architecture certifications (eg, SABSA, TOGAF, CISSP-ISSAP).
• Additional cybersecurity qualifications such as CISM, CRISC, SANS, CISSP, GIAC are beneficial.

If you have the relevant skills and interested in hearing more please apply with your latest CV.

• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.

• Ability to communicate clearly across written, verbal, and presentation formats.

• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues.

• Confidence to challenge constructively and guide teams toward better outcomes.

• Technical credibility across major security architecture domains, including:

• Servers, desktops, networks, storage

• Operating systems and databases

• Virtualisation and cloud platforms

Experience & Expertise

• Deep knowledge of Cybersecurity architecture principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Proven experience delivering security architecture across diverse technologies.
• Ability to operate strategically while supporting practical delivery.
• Commercial experience including vendor assessment, product selection, and contract considerations.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, competing priorities, and multi-stakeholder environments., * Degree-level education or equivalent experience in Cyber Security or Technology.
• Relevant architecture certifications (eg, SABSA, TOGAF, CISSP-ISSAP).
• Additional cybersecurity qualifications such as CISM, CRISC, SANS, CISSP, GIAC are beneficial.