At a Glance
- Tasks: Design innovative security solutions across cloud and traditional platforms to enhance business security.
- Company: Join the largest employee-owned business in the UK, home of John Lewis and Waitrose.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid working, and a chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Exciting career growth opportunities in a supportive and purpose-driven culture.
- Why this job: Shape the future of security in a dynamic environment while collaborating with top professionals.
- Qualifications: Experience in modern security architecture and agile delivery models is essential.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 100000 £ per year.
Overview
ABOUT THE ROLE
Working pattern: The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, balancing time between the London head office and home based on personal needs and business requirements.
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) continually invests in its security capabilities, recognizing the trust our customers place in our brand and the information they provide to us.
This role designs security solutions, patterns, and blueprints across data, platforms, cloud, and network capabilities to support our strategic aims within an evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Design End-to-End
- Security
Solutions: Create effective, repeatable, and sustainable security solutions and patterns across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and traditional hosting environments to strengthen business security.
- Embed Best Practice & Reduce
Risk: Ensure security architecture best practices are applied during solution design activities by delivery teams and third parties to reduce delivery cost, operational risk, and technical debt.
- Democratize Secure Delivery: Enable architects and engineers through clear design principles, patterns, blueprints, and guardrails to scale secure delivery.
- Provide Commercial & Contractual
Counsel: Advise on the commercial and contractual implications of existing or new obligations; review contractual terms of technologies and services within your domain.
- Drive Cross-Functional
Collaboration: Partner with the CISO function, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure security capabilities deliver value; actively promote solution evangelism.
- Monitor & Advise on Industry Trends: Stay up-to-date with shifts in technology, retail, and socio-economic trends to influence internal technology and business decisions.
Essential skills/experience
- Modern Security Architecture Expertise: Experience turning roadmap intent into clear, outcome-focused solutions with strong stakeholder engagement.
- Agile & Technical Architecture Delivery: Adaptable, engineering-focused mindset with experience across multiple service and domain teams using Agile delivery models.
- Core Security Frameworks & Methodologies: Experience with threat modeling; Dev Sec Ops/Sec Ops; Zero Trust; and NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
- Hybrid-Cloud & Infrastructure Knowledge: Knowledge of securing data/workloads across Google Cloud/Workspace, AWS, Zscaler, and commodity Saa S.
- Critical Influence & Leadership: Ability to empower and influence others to align with business strategy and deliver outcomes.
- Emerging Tech & Threat Awareness: Understanding attacker tools/techniques and securing AI/LLM deployments.
Desirable skills/experience
- Advanced Architecture Frameworks: Experience designing SOC architectures (SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management) and secure SDLC.
- Regulated Environments & Evaluation: Experience in regulated environments (e. g., PCI-DSS) and leading tool evaluation and selection.
- Professional Certifications: TOGAF, SABSA, CISSP, CCSP, ISSAP, CEH, or platform-specific certs (GCP, Zscaler, CSA).
- Retail Business Domain Knowledge: Understanding of retail capabilities and processes; benchmarking to drive competitive advantage.
- Role Details
- Closing Date: July 20, 2026
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Hours of Work: N/A
- Job Level: Partnership Level 6
- Where You'll Be Working: London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, SW1V 2QQ
- About the Partnership
We’re the largest employee-owned business in the UK and home of John Lewis and Waitrose.
We’re not just employees; we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
This is an exciting time to join us.
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