Security Architect in Birmingham

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

As a Security Architect, you'll partner with government, financial services, and private sector clients to design security solutions that address their most complex digital risks. You'll translate threat landscapes, compliance obligations, and business constraints into practical security architectures, working across the full engagement lifecycle, from threat modelling, security options analysis, through to facilitating design sessions with delivery teams and presenting recommendations to architecture review boards and senior stakeholders.

Whether that's defining a zero‑trust approach for a government department, designing security controls for a bank's cloud migration, or guiding development teams through secure‑by‑design decisions, you'll bring both depth and pragmatism. Your background in cloud security, application security, and public sector compliance means clients can trust your advice on what works in enterprise environments.

You'll join our central architecture practice alongside experienced Technology Principals and Solution Architects. Security in delivery teams is often under‑served; your role is to change that, not through gates and sign‑offs, but by embedding security thinking early and keeping it there. That includes guiding and upskilling delivery teams on secure‑by‑design practices, helping engineers and product managers build security literacy without slowing down delivery.

Essential Requirements

• Designed and validated security architectures for enterprise‑scale programmes, across cloud platforms, application security, identity and access management, and system integration.
• Experience securing workloads on AWS and/or Azure, including network segmentation, IAM, encryption, secrets management, and security monitoring.
• Understanding of AppSec practices including secure SDLC, SAST/DAST tooling, API security, and container security in agile delivery contexts.
• Experience directly working with clients and senior stakeholders to assess risk, facilitate threat modelling, and build consensus around security approaches.
• Clear communication with both technical teams and non‑technical leadership.

Highly Desirable

• Experience working within GOV.UK digital standards, GDS service assessments, NCSC guidance, and UK government security classifications (Official, Secret).
• Experience designing controls for regulated financial environments, including FCA/PRA expectations, PCI‑DSS, and secure integration patterns for core banking or payment systems.
• Working knowledge of NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or SABSA.
• Experience assessing and mitigating risks in AI/ML solution architectures, including data exposure, prompt injection, model supply chain, and output integrity.

Benefits

• Quarterly Performance‑Related Profit Share Scheme.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching.
• Flexible/remote working.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including pension, private healthcare cover, life assurance, financial advice and an employee discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including gym discounts, bike to work, fitness classes, mindfulness workshops, employee assistance programme and much more.
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call‑Out' platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences.