Enterprise Solution Architect

CloudPay

Security Architect ensuring secure design and operational compliance of CloudPay's global cloud payroll systems. Leading architectural governance and driving security strategies for identity, access, AWS, Azure, and AI technologies.

Posted 7/4/2026full-timeAndover • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and maintain CloudPay’s security architecture vision, principles, standards, and roadmaps.
Ensure security architecture aligns with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and risk appetite.
Design secure, scalable patterns for APIs, data platforms, AI workloads, and cloud‑native services.
Provide authoritative security architecture guidance across engineering, platform, and data teams.
Own the security architecture for workforce and customer identity platforms.
Drive adoption of zero trust principles, strong authentication, least privilege access, and secure identity lifecycle management.
Provide architectural oversight for single sign‑on, federation, privileged access management, and conditional access controls.
Lead security architecture across AWS and Azure, including identity, networking, encryption, monitoring, and workload protection.
Define security guardrails and reference designs using cloud‑native services and infrastructure‑as‑code.
Support secure migration, modernization, and continuous improvement of cloud platforms.
Design and review security controls for AI/ML systems, ensuring customer data has confidentiality, integrity, and availability maintained.
Chair the Security Architecture Review Board (SARB), ensuring consistent architectural decision‑making.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior engineering leaders, product teams, and executive stakeholders.
Mentor security engineers and architects and promote security‑by‑design across the organisation.
Ensure architecture decisions are documented, traceable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in security architecture, cloud security engineering, or senior security leadership roles.
Proven track record securing large‑scale, cloud‑native SaaS platforms, ideally in regulated environments.
Demonstrated experience operating within formal architecture governance frameworks.
Experience engaging with senior leadership, risk committees, and multidisciplinary decision‑making forums.
Strong understanding of balancing security risk, business enablement, and delivery velocity.
Deep experience in IAM architecture for both workforce and customer identities.
Strong understanding of modern authentication, authorization, and access governance.
Practical application of zero trust and identity‑centric security models.
Advanced knowledge of AWS and Azure security architectures and native security services.
Experience designing secure cloud networking, segmentation, encryption, and monitoring.
Familiarity with containerized, serverless, and platform‑as‑a‑service security patterns.
Knowledge of security risks across AI/ML lifecycles, including data ingestion, training, and inference.
Experience evaluating AI‑related threats such as data leakage, prompt injection, and model abuse.
Understanding of AI governance and assurance concepts from a security perspective.
Experience embedding security into SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
Strong threat modeling, security design review, and architecture documentation skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Confident written and verbal communication suitable for executive, risk, and governance forums.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary
Competitive vacation allowance
Calm app
WFH Allowance
Life Assurance
Private Medical Insurance
Cycle to Work Scheme
EAP
Eye Tests & Glasses Contribution
Simplyhealth Enhanced Health Plan
Pension Scheme
Give-As-You-Earn (GAYE)
Employee Referral Program
CloudPay NOW
Paid Volunteering days
Marriage Leave
Bereavement Leave
Vacation Purchase Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

Security Architecture DesignCloud-Native Security PatternsThreat ModelingSecurity Design ReviewInfrastructure-as-CodeData EncryptionMonitoring and LoggingAI/ML Security RisksAuthentication and AuthorizationGovernance Frameworks

Soft Skills

Communication SkillsMentoringLeadershipCollaborationDecision-Making