Design Engineer (Cyber Security)

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Synechron is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to work on a long term programme of work within Cyber Security for a leading financial organisaion. The role will manage end-to-end solution design, deliver architecture design documents and create high-level designs. They will also publish new architecture patterns, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

Presenting and sharing solutions to senior leadership and stakeholders as well as providing technical thought leadership and direction to their aligned projects is key.

Overview

Role: Senior Design Engineer focused on cybersecurity within a financial services environment. Responsible for end-to-end solution design, architecture governance, and publication of design decisions and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs
• Articulate and publish key design decision records and options
• Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
• Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated
• Produce, manage and translate the requirements into the architecture for that solution
• Ensure all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes
• Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval
• Articulate solutions and remediation steps to technical risks and issues
• Provide technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise
• Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
• Ability to manage a project team of technical architects, engineers, and/or analysts

Experience and Skills

Cybersecurity Expertise

• Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
• Excellent command of cybersecurity organisation practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
• Keen understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity
• Experience and understanding of both the roles and interlock between enterprise & solution architecture
• Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives

Identity & Access Management

• Secrets Management: Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
• Experience of designing or implementing Workload Identity Frameworks within large scale enterprises
• Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
• Federated Identity Management: Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains
• Privileged Access Management (PAM): Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users
• Authentication Protocols: Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML

Qualifications & Certifications

• Masters or Doctorate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field
• CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate

Platform & Technology

• BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
• High proficiency and expertise in Jira for project & tasks management
• Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation and JIRA for task management

X6 months +contract in global financial institution – x3 days in Sheffield office – Excellent market rates

Synechron Technologies draws on over 17 years of financial services IT consulting experience to provide expert systems integration expertise and technical development work in highly complex areas within financial services this making it one of the fastest-growing digital, business consulting, and technology firms around the world.

Headquartered in New York and with 22 offices around the world, Synechron has limitless opportunities for our ambitious and innovative employees to contribute to our growth story.

We are embracing the most cutting-edge innovations in areas like Blockchain, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing as well as delivering end-to-end Consulting, Technology, and front-to-back application design capability that allows us to see a project through from start-to-finish as a trusted advisor and partner to our clients, this allowing our people to work on the most industry-leading initiatives that will shape the future of the financial services industry. This has helped us to grow to $850+ million in annual revenue and 13,000 employees.

Synechron’s Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet and Banking

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