Senior Cyber Architect

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Employee Senior Cyber Architect London Permanent , full time(hybrid)
The opportunity  This is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Cyber Architect to join our London based Cyber Security Strategy & Architecture team, focusing on emerging technologies. About QBEAt QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch.    We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an

exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.   What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind.  Your new role As a Senior Security Architect you will strengthen and extend the capacity of the Cyber Security Strategy & Architecture team in response to increasing global demand across cyber initiatives, particularly in security operations, threat management, and emerging areas such as AI and data.

The role ensures architectural guidance is available at the pace of business and security demand, reducing delays and enabling more consistent and scalable security outcomes across a federated global environment.

Security Operations & Threat Management (Primary Focus)
Provide architectural guidance to security operations and threat management teams

Support interpretation of complex security events and systemic risk patterns

Contribute to improving detection, response, and resilience through architectural design input

Help translate operational security insights into long-term architectural improvements

Security Testing & Findings Remediation Analyse findings from security assurance activities

Identify root causes behind security issues, not just surface-level remediation actions

Work with engineering and operations teams to design systemic fixes that prevent recurrence

Support prioritisation of remediation based on architectural risk impact

Security Architecture (Broad Domain Coverage)
Contribute to enterprise security architecture across:

Application security

Cloud security

Data security

Identity & access management

Secure-by-design principles

Emerging technology security (including AI)
Ensure alignment with global security architecture standards in a federated operating model

Architecture Governance & Design Support Participate in design reviews and threat modelling activities where required

Provide pragmatic, principles-based architectural guidance to delivery teams

Support embedding of secure-by-design principles into solution architecture decisions

Act as a trusted advisor across engineering and security functions

Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role.  QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion. About you  Significant experience in cybersecurity architecture or senior security engineering roles

Strong experience in security operations or threat management environments

Proven experience working with security testing outcomes (red team, purple team, penetration testing)
Experience in financial services or insurance industry strongly preferred

Experience operating in global, federated environments across multiple time zones

Exposure to cloud, application, identity, and data security domains

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!     30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.   …