Security Solution Architect

Security Solution Architect | Sydney OR Melbourne | PermanentMost security architecture jobs are a Visio licence, a standards library nobody reads, and a standing invite to a governance forum.This is not that job.The short versionA large, heavily regulated Australian organisation is building out its architecture function and needs a Security Solution Architect to sit inside it. You report to the Enterprise Security Architect. Your job is to take security strategy off the slide and turn it into architectures, patterns and standards that engineering teams can actually build against.What you'd actually be doingOwning security domain architectures, reference architectures, capability roadmaps and technical standardsTurning policy and principle into design guardrails, requirements and reusable patternsRunning threat modelling, security risk assessments and architecture design reviews on live initiativesAdvising across cloud, identity, network, infrastructure, application and data securityWorking alongside security engineering and cyber defence so the controls land properly instead of living in a documentReading the threat and incident picture, then using it to argue for the right architectural investmentWhat you'll needSerious mileage as a Security Architect or Security Solution Architect in complex enterprise environmentsBreadth, not just depth: cloud security, IAM, Zero Trust and network, application security, infrastructure, SIEM and monitoringStrong Azure and Microsoft 365 security capabilityReal threat modelling and architecture review experience, not a certification that says you've heard of itThe ability to explain a control decision to an executive who does not care about controlsWhy botherThe security architecture function here is being deliberately built rather than inherited, the roadmap is funded, and the environment is complex enough to be interesting. Getting it wrong has consequences that are not theoretical, which tends to concentrate the mind and speed up decisions.If that reads like your kind of problem, send me a message or a CV.