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**Security Architect, Secure by Design (21512)** - Shape secure solutions across Macquarie's global financial market platforms, predominantly on cloud-native and distributed architectures. - Key responsibilities include security assessments, design discussions, and influencing security architecture patterns. - Must-haves: Proven experience in cybersecurity, knowledge of formal security architecture aspects, and familiarity with public cloud, containers, and related technologies. - Desirable qualifications include industry-recognised certifications such as CISSP, CISM, orեցSecurity+. - Enjoy hybrid working, comprehensive benefits, and a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Join a global, profitable, and supportive team, driving outcomes and shaping possibilities across technology.
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Security Architect, Secure by Design
Additional office locations
London
Job ID
21512
Date
14-Apr-2026
Permanent - Full time, Mid-level, Mid-senior
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Join our Cyber Security division and play a key role in securing the platforms, applications, and systems that underpin how Macquarie operates across global financial markets.
The Secure by Design team partners closely with engineering and delivery teams throughout the project life cycle to provide security advice, shaping and embedding security into solutions that support trading, manage financial risk, and enable the business to expand into new products and markets.
These solutions run across large-scale, distributed and data-intensive environments, powering data-driven decision making and market-facing capabilities, many of which are real-time, latency-sensitive, and always-on. Security in these environments must be applied in a way that supports performance, availability, and resilience without slowing delivery.
Youll work across a diverse technology landscape, spanning cloud-native and distributed architectures, shaping how security is applied in complex, production environments at scale.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. Youll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.
What role will you play?
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At Macquarie, Secure by Design is how we ensure technology is built to scale safely in a complex, regulated, and constantly evolving environment. As a Security Architect Secure by Design, you will sit at the intersection of engineering delivery, architectural thinking, and riskbased decisionmaking, shaping how security is applied across technology solutions in practice, rather than enforcing controls in isolation. You will work closely with teams building on modern platforms, including public cloud, containerised environments, and automation tooling and with senior stakeholders who value clear thinking, pragmatic advice, and solutions that work in the real world.
A core part of the role focuses on security assessments, reviewing solution designs and implementations to understand where risk sits and to define appropriate, riskaligned security responses. This is a role where judgement matters more than checklists, and where effective security decisions are shaped by context, complexity, and realworld tradeoffs between security, usability, and delivery momentum.
On more complex and higherrisk initiatives, you will be directly involved in design discussions and key decision points, contributing architectural perspective and influencing outcomes where it adds the greatest value. Engagement spans the delivery lifecycle: while some work aligns to formal assessment and review stages, the role also supports earlier Secure by Design involvement on selected initiatives, helping inform design direction before solutions are fully defined.
You will also contribute to the development and evolution of reusable security architecture patterns and controls, supporting a consistent, scalable, and pragmatic Secure by Design approach across the organisation as demand continues to grow.
What you offer
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- Experience in Cyber Security technical design and architecture roles
- Familiarity and experience in formal security architecture aspects, including logical and physical security architecture/design
- Strong understanding of third-party risk, security best practices, and secure application development will help to deliver end-to-end project lifecycle support on Agile or Waterfall projects
- Current or previous experience in software development, engineering, configuring, operating or designing security solutions for business and technology initiatives
- Experience working with public cloud, containers, Kubernetes and related technologies is valuable
- Experience with security engineering, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, vulnerability management, and application development is valuable
- Familiarity and exposure to regulatory requirements, the evolving threat landscape, and industry standard frameworks including but not limited to: NIST, COBIT, and ISO is highly regarded
- Industry recognised qualifications such as SABSA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, Security+, SANS certification, CEH, OSCP and cloud platform certifications are highly desirable, but not required.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.
What we offer
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At Macquarie, youre empowered to shape a career thats rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
- 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks paid leave for secondary caregivers
- Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
- Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services
- Recognition and service awards
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
About Technology
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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. Were a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrows technology solutions.
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
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We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.
Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.
