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 and shape and embed security into solutions that support trading, manage financial risk, and enable the business to expand into new products and markets. These solutions run across large‑scale, distributed and data‑intensive environments, powering data‑driven decision making and market‑facing capabilities, many of which are real‑time, latency‑sensitive, and always‑on. Security in these environments must be applied in a way that supports performance, availability, and resilience without slowing delivery.

You’ll work across a diverse technology landscape, spanning cloud‑native, distributed architectures, and shaping how security is applied in complex, production environments at scale. At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone—no matter what role—contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play? At Macquarie, Secure by Design is how we ensure technology is built to scale safely in a complex, regulated, and constantly evolving environment. As a Security Architect – Secure by Design, you will sit at the intersection of engineering delivery, architectural thinking, and risk‑based decision‑making, shaping how security is applied across technology solutions in practice, rather than enforcing controls in isolation. You will work closely with teams building on modern platforms, including public cloud, containerised environments, automation tooling, and with senior stakeholders who value clear thinking, pragmatic advice, and solutions that work in the real world.

A core part of the role focuses on security assessments, reviewing solution designs and implementations to understand where risk sits and to define appropriate, risk‑aligned security responses. This is a role where judgement matters more than checklists, and where effective security decisions are shaped by context, complexity, and real‑world trade‑offs between security, usability, and delivery momentum. On more complex and higher‑risk initiatives, you will be directly involved in design discussions and key decision points, contributing architectural perspective and influencing outcomes where it adds the greatest value.

Engagement spans the delivery lifecycle: while some work aligns to formal assessment and review stages, the role also supports earlier Secure by Design involvement on selected initiatives, helping inform design direction before solutions are fully defined. You will also contribute 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 as demand continues to grow.

What you offer

• Experience in Cyber Security technical design and architecture roles
• Familiarity and experience in formal security architecture aspects, including logical and physical security architecture/design
• Strong understanding of third‑party risk, security best practices, and secure application development will help 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 is valuable
• Experience with security engineering, infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, vulnerability management, and application development is valuable
• Familiarity and exposure to regulatory requirements, the evolving threat landscape, and industry standard frameworks including but not limited to: NIST, COBIT, and ISO is highly regarded
• 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

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
• 26 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
• Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
• Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Access to 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

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We are a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.

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.