Cyber Security Architect
Cyber Security Architect position — see original posting for full details.
Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
We are looking for Cyber Security Architects to join our growing team. As a Cyber Security Architect, you’ll work on complex systems provided by Thales and provide specialist security architecture, technical leadership and guidance, to enable Thales to devise, develop and maintain reliable, secure, accreditable and economically sustainable security solutions to meet the project needs. You will advise on the development of high level security compliant architecture and contribution to the design of the preliminary and detailed designs of the solution: it includes the study of alternatives and a risk assessment
Consult on potential security components architectures (e.g. SIEM, IAM, gateways, detection and deception capabilities...)
Evaluate architectures against Business Line policy and major cyber security standards & regulation frameworks (NIST, ISO, JSP, etc.)
Produce justification for architectural choices
Ensure technical coordination across a multi-discipline team
Present, recommend and demonstrate solutions to customer representatives, peers or technical teams
Conduct security related tasks including:
Right for this role? Ideally you have graduated in Engineering or Computer Science or hold relevant industry certifications (CISSP, Cisco, CCP, etc)
Have experience of advising on security solutions taking into account customer needs You want to secure the solutions in collaboration with the domain architects You are seen as a value proposition on crucial and sensitive programmes COMPETENCIES:
Experience working in organisations adopting Secure by Design
You have the ability to define architectures on your own or with other specialists You are proficient with Infrastructure Security Design, Security Supervision Design, and Information Systems Security (ISS) You can advise and give support to the rest of the team Familiar with Risk Analysis, Network Security, Crypt
Posted June 14, 2026