Security Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are recruiting a Security Engineer to join our Defence and Security sector. Reporting to Security Sub-Sector Leader, you will be responsible for technical delivery of medium size projects or elements of larger projects in own discipline with fee levels of typically in range of £100K - £500K. You will provide strong technical leadership and dependable delivery across complex security engineering commissions, managing project teams of single (own) discipline engineers and technicians of between 5 to10 people.

• Apply sound security engineering judgement to translate threats, vulnerabilities, operational needs and risk appetite into proportionate, integrated and buildable requirements and solutions.
• Lead and assure security engineering on major multidisciplinary, security-sensitive and nationally important infrastructure projects within an engineering consultancy environment.
• Coordinate security requirements with architecture and other engineering disciplines throughout the design and delivery lifecycle.
• Support consistent technical governance, quality assurance and the development of less-experienced colleagues.
• Contribute to workload planning, capability development and service improvement, progressing towards broader service leadership as experience and competence develop.
• Help convert client needs into credible scopes, delivery approaches, teams and fee proposals.

Technical contribution, team development and progression towards service leadership

• Contribute to the effective day-to-day delivery of the Security Engineering service, supporting workload planning, resource coordination, priority setting and identification of capability gaps.
• Provide visible technical leadership within commissions, promote evidence-led decision-making and help maintain consistent professional and quality standards.
• Coach and mentor security engineers and consultants, including support towards relevant professional registration such as RSES, Engineering Council registration and Chartered Security Professional status.
• Support delivery across UK and global teams, recognising when specialist input is required and helping ensure work is allocated to suitably competent people.
• Develop the commercial, people and operational skills required to take on broader service leadership responsibilities over time, supported by the Security Sub-Sector Leader and senior technical colleagues.

• Act as technical lead, discipline lead, verifier or independent reviewer on major or complex commissions, in line with competence and project governance requirements.
• Lead the definition of the security problem through asset, business-impact, threat, vulnerability, criticality and risk assessment, including articulation of risk appetite, uncertainty and residual risk.
• Lead or assure the Operational Requirements process, defining Level 1 requirements and coordinating Level 2 functional and performance requirements with relevant specialists.
• Develop, compare and justify proportionate security strategies and design options that integrate people, process, physical, electronic and digital measures.
• Provide security input throughout the built-asset lifecycle, from strategy and concept through design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, handover and in-use review.
• Ens…