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Information Security Architect
£13,000 - 127,500 
Howdens Joinery
Harvey Reeves Road, Northampton 
£13,000 - 127,500 
Requirements
Must:
- Proven expertise in Information Security with a strong architectural focus.
- In-depth knowledge of lateral movement risks, network segmentation, and endpoint security.
- Extensive experience with Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Strong skills in protocol analysis, network architecture, and infrastructure design.
- Possess a recognized Cyber Security qualification (CISSP, CISM, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with industry-related frameworks such as ISO27001, PCI DSS, and Zero Trust.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with colleagues at all levels.
- Ability to work collaboratively with and manage third-party suppliers.
- Experience in managing organizational change.
- Drive, resilience, and strong presentation skills.
- Training and accreditation in industry-recognized technologies are advantageous.
- Proficient in presentation and training techniques related to IT security.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across business, technical, and service teams to design and deliver security solutions that enhance our cybersecurity maturity, reduce risk, and align with broader business objectives.
- Engage with stakeholders to balance competing business needs, technical constraints, and security requirements, ensuring effective outcomes.
- Lead and contribute to solution design and re-architecture initiatives, assessing technical options in partnership with the Head of Information Security and Enterprise Architecture, ensuring secure, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
- Conduct proactive security architecture reviews of planned and existing systems to identify risks, validate control effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement in design and posture.
- Assist in the evaluation and procurement of security technologies, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and architecture principles.
- Investigate alerts to determine their legitimacy and impact, prioritize response actions based on severity, and coordinate containment and remediation activities when threats are confirmed.
- Engage in proactive hunting activities to uncover undetected threats and build hypotheses based on threat intelligence, behavioral patterns, and environmental baselines.
- Perform regular updates and tuning of detection rules, playbooks, and alert thresholds to reduce false positives and ensure high-fidelity threat detection.
- Champion and promote awareness of Information Security best practices and ensure compliance with security policies.
Description
We are Howdens Joinery and we are excited to present a brand-new opportunity for an Information Security Architect to join our growing Cyber team. In this role, you will design secure, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions that will empower Howdens’ digital transformation while protecting what matters most. You will be working at the forefront of infrastructure, cloud, and application security, influencing key design decisions, and ensuring our technology landscape remains resilient, compliant, and future-ready. This is a permanent position based in our Northampton office, where you will be required to work onsite two days per week. What we can offer you includes a competitive salary and annual company bonus, a company car or car allowance, private medical insurance, an excellent pension scheme (company matched of up to 12%), 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional days, staff discounts, an employee assistance program, and exceptional reward and recognition events. As the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier, Howdens Joinery provides thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. With over 900 depots throughout the UK and Europe, we are the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. Last year, our sales reached approximately £2.3 billion, and we have an ambitious growth agenda. Joining us means being part of a rewarding organization recognized for excellence in the workplace in the Best Big Companies to Work For.
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