Lead Security Architect, InstaDeep

• 5+ years in enterprise and cloud security architecture
• 5+ years in identity, access, and network trust design
• 3+ years facilitating threat modeling and secure design reviews
• Strong experience defining architecture standards and translating principles into practical patterns
• Experience working across enterprise IT, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and product environments
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical functions
• Security architecture at enterprise and cloud scale
• Zero Trust and IAM architecture
• Secure integration and trust-boundary design
• Threat modeling and architecture review governance
• Cloud-native security patterns
• Data security and access-control design
• Strong written communication and architecture documentation
• Ability to coach and influence senior engineers and architects
• Security architecture: Expert
• Zero Trust / IAM design: Expert
• Threat modeling: Advanced
• Stakeholder leadership: Advanced
• You are likely to be someone who:
• Thinks in systems, not just controls
• Can balance strategic design with pragmatic delivery
• Is comfortable influencing without always owning implementation
• Can create clarity in complex multi-stakeholder environments
• Can make architecture standards usable by engineers, not just readable by auditors

Desirable

• We are looking for a Lead Security Architect to define and evolve the company’s reference security architecture across enterprise IT, cloud, data, product, and AI/ML environments
• This is a senior leadership role for someone who can combine deep technical architecture capability with the ability to work across IT, Product, Cloud, Data, Legal, and Governance stakeholders
• You will shape the company’s target-state architecture for Zero Trust, IAM, reverse proxy, segmentation, AI/ML trust boundaries, and secure integration patterns, while ensuring security architecture remains practical, scalable, and aligned to business priorities
• You will play a central role in helping the company scale securely as an AI-first, cloud-first organisation operating in a regulated context with ISO 27001, NIS2, and sensitive data protection requirements
• Security architecture leadership
• Own the company’s reference security architecture and target-state security patterns across enterprise IT, infrastructure, cloud, data, and product environments
• Define architecture principles and implementation patterns for Zero Trust, identity, authorization, trust boundaries, segmentation, secure integration, and secure access
• Set the strategic direction for enterprise, cloud, and data security architecture
• Cloud, IAM, and Zero Trust design
• Define target-state architecture for Enterprise IT, Cloud, and Infrastructure, including:
• IAM and identity trust models
• Reverse proxy and secure access architecture
• Network and data segmentation
• Cloud-native control patterns
• Lead the development of architecture standards for secure integration between IT and product environments
• Partner closely with Global IT Security Engineering on IAM, endpoint, VPN, reverse proxy, and access-tool integration
• AI/ML and data security architecture
• Define security architecture for AI/ML workflows, cloud-native data platforms, and ML pipelines
• Establish and maintain AI/ML trust-boundary models
• Support architecture and product teams on secure AI adoption
• Shape standards for:
• Data governance and access design
• ML pipeline trust boundaries
• Model and data protection patterns
• Secure use of AI assistants and AI-enabled workflows
• Architecture governance and design assurance
• Lead architecture review governance for high-risk initiatives
• Facilitate and strengthen threat modeling and secure design review practices
• Ensure that security principles are translated into reusable, practical design patterns
• Create standards that can be adopted by architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, and product teams
• Stakeholder leadership
• Translate between technical architecture language and governance / compliance / business language
• Work closely with:
• Trust & Security teams
• IT Platform and IT Security Engineering
• Product and engineering leadership
• Legal and GRC
• Coach and influence architects and technical leaders across IT, Cloud, Product, and ML environments
• Subject Matter Expert and role model in developing a Security Architecture Platform
• Typical deliverables
• Security reference architecture
• Architecture review records and decision logs
• Threat models for high-risk systems and initiatives
• Zero Trust design patterns
• IAM and trust-boundary architecture models
• Data and AI trust-boundary models
• Data-access design standards
• Secure implementation patterns aligned with architecture standards
• We support continued development in this role through:
• SABSA / CCSP-style learning paths or equivalent enterprise architecture development
• Regular updates on NIST Zero Trust and cloud architecture patterns
• AI system and data-governance design training
• Ongoing exposure to architecture, governance, and regulatory developments relevant to cloud, AI, and security