Enterprise Security Architect

Enterprise Security Architect

Locations: Bristol, Norwich & York

Salary: Circa £85k

Do you thrive on devising enterprise-wide security strategies? This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our enterprise security landscape.

If you are passionate about aligning security architecture with IT & business goals as well as driving innovation, this role is for you.

A bit about the job:

As an Enterprise Security Architect, you will be in a leadership position, responsible for defining and maintaining aspects of the enterprise security architecture, including a domain and collections of capabilities.

You will work closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across the Cyber Security teams and the Business to ensure security is embedded in our operations, solutions, and services.

Your role will involve setting architectural standards, collaborating, and guiding SMEs and Solution Architects, and ensuring we have the solutions in our kit bag to deliver compliance with our security controls, policies, and Aviva’s desired posture.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strategic Vision & Architectural Leadership: Ability to align cyber security requirements, solutions, processes, and services with Aviva’s strategic goals. As well as creating high level architectures using frameworks, principles, standards, controls, threats and risks. Experience in building roadmaps and modelling future-state architectures including the articulation of the steps and transition states to get there.
• Portfolio Influence / Delivery Enablement: Comfortable navigating complex interdependencies across projects and domains. Strong technical domain knowledge and experience to shape and support agile and iterative delivery. Able to develop and present governance papers for strategic security change activity, driven and sponsored by a Cyber Security Leadership Team member.
• Critical Thinking: Adept at solving problems in ambiguous environments and challenging conventional thinking. External perspective of threats, security trends and insights to inform strategic planning.
• Influence and Communication: Skilled communicator and storyteller, able to engage and influence senior stakeholders internally and externally. Active in engaging with vendors and partners to get the most value out of them. Politically savvy and confident in facilitating discussions and managing communications.

What you’ll get for this role: 

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.  

• Starting salary circa £85k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 12% – actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in. 
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days 
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it 
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts 
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme 
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave  
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work  
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others 
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools 

Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 

Aviva is for everyone: 

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. 

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. 

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here 

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on 07795207964 or send an email to chloe.nettley@aviva.com