Lead Security Architect - Microsoft Security specialist
Location: UK (Hybrid) (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh)
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Lead Security Architect to play a key role in shaping and delivering secure, enterprise-scale technology solutions across complex transformation programmes.
This is a senior leadership role combining strategy, architecture, and hands-on delivery, where you'll define security direction, influence senior stakeholders, and ensure robust, scalable security architectures are embedded across major client engagements.
You'll operate as a trusted advisor, helping organisations navigate evolving security challenges while enabling secure digital transformation.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the design and delivery of enterprise security architectures across large-scale programmes
- Defining security strategies, frameworks, and roadmaps aligned to business objectives
- Embedding security-by-design principles across cloud, applications, and infrastructure
- Acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders on security strategy and risk
- Overseeing security across cloud environments, platforms, and enterprise systems
- Ensuring alignment with industry standards, compliance, and governance frameworks
- Supporting pre-sales and solution shaping activities on strategic opportunities
- Mentoring and developing security architects and engineering teams
- Driving continuous improvement and adoption of modern security practices and tooling
What We're Looking For
- Strong leadership, communication skills, client presence and focus, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders and clients
- Demonstrates and is recognized as an eminent Microsoft security thought leader internally (ideally externally as well) in security
- Broad Microsoft security technical, delivery and sales experience across Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview and Cloud Security, able to articulate the end to end value proposition.
- Ability to lead large scale Microsoft security transformations and managed security services opportunities
- Ability to identify, define and build new offerings from ideation through to market
- Advanced Microsoft security certifications such as SC-100, SC-200, SC-401 etc.
- Nice to have - Industry recognized certification such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GIAC etc.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (E.g. GDPR, NIST AI RMF, ISO27001, SOC 2 etc.)
- Market-focused with a growth mindset
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results within a region
Ability to build organizational culture, drive employee engagement, strengthen inclusion and diversity, reduce attrition, and attract top talent
Nice to Have
- Experience across DevSecOps and secure SDLC practices
- Knowledge of Zero Trust, identity & access management, and modern security architectures
- Experience in regulated industries
What's on Offer
- Performance bonus
- Opportunity to lead high-impact security transformation programmes
- Strong career progression within a senior architecture community
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Lead Security Architect - Microsoft Security specialist employer: Anson McCade Pty
Join a dynamic and innovative consulting powerhouse in London, where your expertise as a Consulting Partner will be valued and rewarded. With a competitive salary and performance-related bonuses, you'll thrive in a collaborative culture that prioritises employee growth and development, while working on high-impact projects that drive real change in the insurance sector. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape strategic direction and build lasting relationships at the C-suite level within a rapidly expanding organisation.
