Cyber Architect Analyst

Circa £50k, Salary Dependent On Skills And Experience

Permanent Full-time, with flexibility for part-time Hybrid role, working from Lincoln or Huntingdon. Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in either our Lincoln or Huntingdon office, depending on your location and you'll be expected to be in the office two days a week.

Strengthening cyber resilience to protect our people, customers, and environment. This role will sit within our Cyber Architecture team, ensuring secure design and strategic decision-making. You will collaborate closely with architects and engineers to embed security principles and policies into new systems and services, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure solutions across operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments. You will contribute to the creation and implementation of our cyber security roadmap, ensuring Anglian Water remains resilient to threats.

The Cyber Architect Analyst is a pivotal member of the cyber security team, responsible for translating the organisation’s cyber security strategy into effective protection across both IT and OT environments. Working alongside other functions within Cyber Security, including Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Security Operations (SecOps), and Identity—this role will be key to ensuring new services and capabilities are implemented securely, aligned to the cyber strategy you’ll be involved in developing. Over time, analysts will have the opportunity to rotate between these domains to develop broad and well‑rounded cyber security expertise.

As a cyber architecture team member, you will be assisting in reviewing detailed level technical designs, working with delivery partners to ensure security is factored into designs, defining the roadmap of security tooling to ensure it remains fit for purpose and supported, be a stakeholder for projects and supporting your business colleagues with procurement exercises. This is a diverse and hands‑on position, offering exposure to a wide range of security activities across both OT and IT environments.

Success in the role requires a strong technical foundation, analytical thinking, and a collaborative mindset, as the analyst will work closely with technical partners and colleagues across the business. Whether managing security controls, supporting audits and compliance reviews, or influencing secure architecture decisions, the Cyber Security Analyst will play a central role in strengthening the organisation’s cyber resilience and maturity.

What will you be doing?

• Work with technical and non‑technical teams to embed cyber requirements into new systems, services, and architecture decisions.
• Inject cyber expertise into projects, ensuring secure design, appropriate risk assessments, and testing.
• Collaborate with colleagues across IT, OT, and wider business functions to align cyber activity with strategic objectives.
• Contribute to the development, maintenance, and rollout of cyber security strategy, policies, standards, and guardrails.
• Identify and communicate cyber risks, recommending practical mitigations and tracking remediation progress through BAU and projects changes.
• Carry out assessments of cyber security control architectures across the business and with third‑party suppliers, producing clear reports and action plans.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by sharing insights and championing innovation across teams.
• Assist with major incident response activities to minimise impact on critical services.
• Review security services and support continuous improvement to enhance overall security posture.

What does it take to be a Cyber Architect Analyst?

We’re looking for a highly capable and motivated Cyber Security professional who combines strong technical knowledge with excellent interpersonal skills. You’ll bring:

• A degree (or equivalent experience) and formal cyber/IT/OT qualifications such as CySA+, Security+, CISSP or CISM.
• A solid understanding of threat, risk assessment and risk management principles.
• Strong knowledge in IT, OT, or cyber security, with a broad understanding across the wider cyber landscape.
• Awareness of core networking concepts such as TCP/IP.
• Natural curiosity and logical problem‑solving ability.
• High integrity, with the discretion required when handling sensitive information.
• The ability to build effective relationships with both highly technical colleagues and non‑technical users.
• A calm, composed approach under pressure.
• A self‑motivated, determined mindset with strong attention to detail.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess.
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion.
• A flexible working culture.
• Competitive pension scheme – we double‑match your contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus Scheme.

Why apply?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly love what we do! If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: 20th May 2026