Senior Cyber Security Architecture Manager (Basé à Wirral)

Unilever is one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies with operations in over 190 countries and serving 3.4 billion consumers every day. Our strategy begins with a purpose that places our consumers at the heart of everything we do, “Brighten everyday life for all”.

Unilever’s Cyber Security team is a global, product-led function aligned to the NIST Cyber Security Framework. We deliver capabilities across governance, protection, detection, response, and recovery to safeguard our people, operations, and digital assets. Operating alongside our Technology and Data teams, Cyber Security enables secure innovation and resilience across our global business.

The role of the Senior Cyber Security Architecture Manager is to clearly understand the requirements our GRAC, Identify, Protect, Detect and Respond teams have in their aim of reducing Cyber Security Risk at Unilever and to then align those requirements to a carefully selected landscape of technologies. This careful selection of technologies needs to encompass consideration for cost, simplicity in vendor landscape and efforts to ensure that we do not overlap, too extensively, capabilities from different vendors.

The second facet of the role is to stay abreast of Cyber Security technology advancements across our existing vendor landscape and beyond. Being aware of product advancements and shifts in the vendor landscape enable us to surface these opportunities and insights to our GRAC, Identify, Protect, Detect and Respond teams.

This role will report into the Director for Cyber Security Architecture wherein the incumbent will take on responsibility for the Cyber Security Technology Architecture for 2-3 of the following NIST Product Families, namely, Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and/or Recover. The incumbent into this Senior Manager position will line manage 1-2 Architecture Managers and potentially 1-2 Architecture Analysts, with added responsibility for managing occasional Graduate Trainee and/or Apprentice placements in their team.

Responsibilities

• Becoming a trusted advisor in Security Architecture, pro-actively providing security leadership and guidance to Cyber Security NIST Product Teams, Projects and Third Parties.
• Developing and designing Cyber Security solutions that will be adopted for the protection of OT, IoT, IT infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Zero Trust and IT applications.
• Advising on security best practice on cyber elements of business initiatives.
• Scanning the market for security solutions and evaluation through Proof of Value and Proof of Concept activities.
• Playing an active role in the definition and iteration of the Unilever Cyber Security transformation.
• Advising on security architecture implementation to facilitate world-class security solution design and ensure Unilever’s cyber protection is continually reviewed and improved to reflect emerging new threats.
• Creation of solution designs that underpin our broad ranging global Cyber Security Transformation Programme ensuring solutions are effectively designed and implemented.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, being able to be understood by both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple senior stakeholders, across the globe, to design programs that meet the requirements of the organization & strengthens the resilience posture of Unilever.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and diverse stakeholders.
• Any Industry accepted Cyber Security/Business Continuity certification is desirable such as CISSP.
• Should have sound knowledge of IT Disaster Recovery scenarios and Cyber related Business Continuity Planning.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and presentation skills.
• A sound understanding of Cyber Security Risk and its interplay with compliance to Standards.

Experience

• Managerial experience in Cyber Security and/or IT Teams.
• At least 10 years of work experience in Technology, within a global organisation – ideally within Retail, Manufacturing, Pharma or FMCG, or, a breadth of experience with a range of employers across sectors.
• At least 3 years of work experience in a senior role in Cyber Security, Information Security, Business Continuity Management/Disaster Recovery or direct support to Senior Management.
• Good strategic and operational business awareness, customer concerns, with a deep understanding of the key drivers, levers, issues, and constraints of digital businesses.
• Understanding of global best practices / standards (e.g., NIST, CIS), Information Security standards and controls, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud) and their resilience features.

What We Offer

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.