Technical & Security Architect Export Finance - G7

Main Activities

The key responsibilities and deliverables for this post are working with your UKEF colleagues and customers to ensure that UKEF is able to meet evolving customer demand using a secure, scalable and robust enterprise architecture blueprint.

The main activities of your role will be:

• Designing secure systems - you can design and review system architectures through the development of patterns and principles.
• Security technology - you can demonstrate strong knowledge of system architectures. You can understand and articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs and systems, and how easy or difficult it will be to exploit these vulnerabilities. You can be recognised as an expert by peers in the broader security industry.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical - you can identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can demonstrate excellent communication skills and can manage difficult conversations or negotiations.
• Making and guiding decisions - you can make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions.
• Strategy - you can apply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can provide guidance.
• Turning business problems into secure technical designs - you can design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can simultaneously work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
• Understanding the whole context - you can understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work. You can see how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context. You can consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.
• The public core of the internet - you will have detailed and extensive experience of naming and numbering systems, cryptographic mechanisms, packet routing and common protocols and how the domain name system (DNS) works.

You will also have detailed and extensive expertise of at least two of the following:

• managing domains for a large, distributed and federated organisation
• how domains are used to support internet services and their security
• different ways that a domain vulnerability can be exploited, and how to prevent them
• developing tools that interact with domain records

This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.