Security Architect - Cryptography

We are currently looking for a Security Architect to join an existing team with one of our financial services clients. The role will be to manage end-to-end solution design and will be responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Experience of working in a financial services environment and in cryptographic projects will be required.

The role will also involve the creation of high-level designs, publishing new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

Cybersecurity Expertise:

• Architect secure, multi-tenant HSMaaS platforms for cryptographic key management and operations
• Define cryptographic service models delivered via HSMs
• Design scalable, compliant HSM infrastructures
• Integrate and optimize cloud and on-prem HSMs
• Develop secure APIs and interfaces for HSM provisioning, access, and automation
• Implement strong access controls, key isolation, and secure lifecycle management
• Establish cryptographic policies for key creation, usage, rotation, and destruction
• Embed monitoring, logging, and attestation for cryptographic operations and HSM events
• Perform threat modeling and security architecture reviews focused on HSM services
• Define disaster recovery, high availability, and secure backup strategies for HSMaaS
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security benchmarks, including CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and their application to cryptographic services

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