Vice President - Security Solution Architect

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job Information:

• Functional Title: Security Solution Architect
• Department: Infrastructure Architecture
• Corporate Level: Vice President
• Reports To: Director
• Location: London

Job purpose - major duties and responsibilities of the job

The CLS Architecture practice establishes and maintains the architectural framework to support the technology strategy within which secure IT solutions can be delivered. It is responsible for ensuring CLS continues to deliver, secure, reliable, resilient, cost-beneficial business service solutions (current, planned and speculated) through the formulation of the enterprise strategy and architecture framework for the CLS IT Systems, underpinned by the technical governance and compliance of IT Systems designs.

To function as a Security Solutions Architect on a variety of internal and external IT delivery projects, key responsibilities include:

• Produce high-quality High Level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues.
• Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Design Authority team with options and rationale and subsequently proceed with authoring High Level Design documents.
• Focus on Security Tooling High Level Designs, and products management, assessing product development and enhancements fit for the organisation within this domain.
• Map Network and data flows, for internal and external integrations along with the associated security controls.
• Conduct comprehensive Threat Modelling, risk assessments and secure by design architecture practices.
• Provide design based technical direction to the IT security engineering, delivery, and test teams throughout implementation phases.
• Support the Security Enterprise Architects in the development of security capability road maps to enable the evolution of the security portfolios from current to future state.
• Function as a liaison between Architecture and Security Engineering and contribute to the development of technical standards and security policies, architecture design quality, and architecture best practices.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities - competencies required for successful job performance.

• Experience and understanding of security and automation tooling high level design, where security tooling supports the capabilities of, Cryptography, Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, SIEM, Privilege & Identity Access Management, User Behaviour & Insider Threat Analysis, Data Security, Application Security and Network Security.
• Solid understanding and design capability across multiple security and infrastructure domains such as networks, firewalls, secure data and file transfer, remote access solutions, cloud security, containerisation, automation, cloud, data center, collaboration, and end user/digital workplace services.
• Technologies, LAN/WAN/MAN, Routing, Firewall, Firewall rule management, Wireless, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, Proxy, VPN services, HSMs.
• Experience designing, documenting, complex solutions and their integrations.
• Ability to apply secure by design and resiliency by design concepts to the high-level security design process.

Additionally, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following personal characteristics:

• Proactive self-starter able to learn quickly and work/deliver independently.
• Be able to multi-task as several projects and initiatives may be active at the same time.
• Possess strong interpersonal and influencing skills with good stakeholder management, both internal and external.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work on complex projects with globally distributed teams and to tight timelines.

Qualifications / certifications:

• Bachelor and/or Master’s Degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant IT Security Architecture certifications are beneficial: CISSP, or Cloud security, AI security, and networking accreditations. (e.g. AWS Certified Security Speciality, AWS Solution Architect), AAISM (Advanced AI Security Management), Microsoft Certified Cyber Security Architect.

Our commitment to employees:

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.