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Design Engineer

Experis UK • Sheffield, England, GB • 1w ago

Role Title: Design Engineer

Duration: 8 month contract

Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £552 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

Design Engineer to manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, Design Engineer will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

Design Engineer should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders. Additionally, the Design Engineer will provide technical thought leadership and direction to their aligned projects and may stand in as subject matter experts and consultants related programmes.

Principal Preferred Requirements:

Cybersecurity Expertise:

Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud
Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level
Excellent command of cybersecurity organisation practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
Keen understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity
Experience and understanding of both the roles and interlock between enterprise & solution architecture
Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives
Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes

Identity & Access Management:

Secrets Management: Experience of designing solutions using SM tools such as HashiCorp Vault
Experience of developing secrets management patterns and championing designs through architecture governance forums
Experience of designing or implementing Workload Identity Frameworks within large scale enterprises
Capable of defining secrets management strategy and influencing the future direction of secrets management within the bank
Federated Identity Management: Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
Privileged Access Management (PAM): Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
Authentication Protocols: Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
Privileged Access Management (PAM): Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
Authentication Protocols: Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.

Qualifications & Certifications:

Masters or Doctorate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field
CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate
SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred

Platform & Technology:

BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
High proficiency and expertise in Jira for project & tasks management
Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation and JIRA for task management

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design:

Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements
Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process
Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt
Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated.
Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes
Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle
Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security
Promote strong documentation and clerkship

Governance:

Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes
Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation
Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval

Risk and Dependency Management:

Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues
Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues
Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change

Leadership & Teamwork:

Provides technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise
Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME
Ability to manage a project team of technical architects, engineers, and/or analysts
Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessary

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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