Security Architect, Secure by Design in London

Join our Cyber Security division and play a key role in securing the platforms, applications, and systems that underpin how Macquarie operates across global financial markets. The Secure by Design team partners closely with engineering and delivery teams throughout the project life cycle to provide security advice, shaping and embedding security into solutions that support trading, manage financial risk, and enable the business to expand into new products and markets.

What role will you play? As a Security Architect – Secure by Design, you will sit at the intersection of engineering delivery, architectural thinking, and risk‑based decision‑making. You will shape how security is applied across technology solutions in practice, rather than enforcing controls in isolation.

Your responsibilities include:

• Conducting security assessments and reviewing solution designs and implementations to understand where risk sits and to define appropriate, risk‑aligned security responses.
• Participating in design discussions and key decision points for complex and higher‑risk initiatives, contributing architectural perspective and influencing outcomes.
• Engaging across the delivery lifecycle, supporting early Secure by Design involvement on selected initiatives, and informing design direction before solutions are fully defined.
• Contributing to the development and evolution of reusable security architecture patterns and controls, supporting a consistent, scalable, and pragmatic Secure by Design approach across the organisation.

What you offer:

• Experience in Cyber Security technical design and architecture roles.
• Familiarity with formal security architecture aspects, including logical and physical security architecture/design.
• Strong understanding of third‑party risk, security best practices, and secure application development to deliver end‑to‑end project lifecycle support on Agile or Waterfall projects.
• Current or previous experience in software development, engineering, configuring, operating or designing security solutions for business and technology initiatives.
• Experience working with public cloud, containers, Kubernetes and related technologies.
• Experience with security engineering, infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, vulnerability management, and application development.
• Familiarity and exposure to regulatory requirements, the evolving threat landscape, and industry standard frameworks including NIST, COBIT, and ISO.
• Industry recognised qualifications such as SABSA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, Security+, SANS certification, CEH, OSCP and cloud platform certifications are highly desirable but not required.

What we offer:

• Wellbeing leave: 1 day per year.
• Annual leave: minimum 25 days.
• Paid parental leave: 26 weeks for primary caregivers, 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers.
• Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment.
• Paid volunteer leave and donation matching: 2 days.
• Salary sacrificing options.
• Comprehensive medical and life insurance cover.
• Employee Assistance Program with behavioural health network, counselling and coaching services.
• Learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
• Company‑funded emergency and backup dependent care services.
• Recognition and service awards.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
• Reimbursement for work‑from‑home equipment.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion:

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.