Lead Security Architect (Contract)

About the role

Hastha Solutions is recruiting urgently for a Lead Security Architect on a 6-month contract in Sydney, Australia, with possible extension. The role is responsible for ensuring solution architectures meet the customer's security policies, standards, patterns and principles, and for mentoring Security Architects. Only Australian or New Zealand citizens or PR holders are eligible.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure solution architectures comply with the customer's security policies, standards, patterns and principles, managing deviations through the customer's risk management framework.
• Perform a security quality assurance function and support operational readiness processes.
• Mentor Security Architects and act as a trusted advisor across security domains.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, delivery teams, vendors and partners to define and operationalise security controls in solution architectures.
• Drive assessments of emerging security capabilities so standards and capability roadmaps stay current.
• Define and document reusable assets such as standardised security requirements and solution patterns.
• Contribute to security strategy, standards and frameworks, and define security solution architectures with documented business and security impacts.
• Take part in requirements, solution impact assessments, high-level designs, solution briefs, architecture definitions and security risk assessments.
• Communicate security risks to business stakeholders in a timely way, drawing on insights from privacy, legal, engineering and operations.
• Foster relationships with industry and technology vendors to anticipate opportunities and threats, and support innovation and security consultation.

Required profile

• Extensive experience (8+ years) delivering complex security solutions, including security requirements, controls definition and threat/risk assessment.
• Experience solving enterprise-scale security problems with high ambiguity, and developing or contributing to architecture or technology strategy.
• Tertiary qualification in IT, Engineering or a complementary discipline.
• Highly desirable: industry certifications such as CRISC, CISSP, CISM, SABSA, CCNP, CCIE, CCSP, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, ITIL, COBIT 5.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps.

Required skills

• Knowledge of IT systems planning, design and technical architecture.
• Design of service-oriented and RESTful architectures.
• Experience securing Agentic AI solutions and designing secure cloud-based solutions.