Technical & Security Architect Export Finance - G7

Technical & Security Architect - UK Export Finance - G7

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Location:

Westminster, London

The Digital Data and Technology Division provides UKEF’s DDaT operational IT services and transformational capability for the delivery of change programmes. The Division includes project and change managers, a PMO function, Business Analysts, Developers, Dev Ops and Enterprise Architecture. The Enterprise Architecture Team role is to develop and maintain a framework that will assist UKEF to align our strategy, processes and technology to achieve our goals.

The Enterprise Architecture function is critical for UKEF to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to disruptive forces by identifying and analysing the execution of change toward desired business visions and outcomes. Enterprise Architecture enhances customer value add by presenting business and IT leaders with signature‑ready recommendations to achieve agreed business outcomes.

The Technical & Security Architect is a key member of the EA Team and is responsible for the architecture and security of the team’s domains monitoring platform and to ensure that the  registry provider delivers a resilient service. The UK Public Sector depends on internet domain name spaces such as “”, and you will ensure these name spaces remain stable, trusted, well managed and resistant to compromise.

You will bring together your proven technical and cyber expertise with business transformation where branding, government policy and law all play a part through the creation of secure technical solution designs ensuring all our services and infrastructure are secure by design. It is essential that you are positive, proactive and collaborative with a commitment to providing excellent customer service.

• 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.

• 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

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