Senior Application Security Architect

Senior Application Security Architect 

Reading/Exeter/Remote (UK only)

What it's like to work at Landmark:

At Landmark, you'll find a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team that values bold ideas, big dreams, and active curiosity. We foster a culture of innovation, encouraging everyone to contribute to the development and direction of our products and services, while continuously seeking new and efficient ways to work.

Collaboration and sociability are at the heart of what we do, and we take pride in coming together to achieve great things.

We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth, including:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option of adding up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
• Annual Lifestyle Allowance: £300 to spend on an activity of your choice
• Pension Scheme: Matched up to 6% for the first 3 years, and up to 10% thereafter
• Private Health Insurance: Provided by Vitality
• Group Income Protection Scheme
• Charitable Fundraising: Matched funding for your efforts
• Cycle to Work and Gym Flex Schemes
• Internal Coaching and Mentoring: Available throughout your time with us
• Training and Career Progression: A strong focus on your development
• Family-Friendly Policies
• Free Parking

Join us at Landmark and be part of a team that supports your ambitions and growth, both personally and professionally.

The Opportunity

The role of the Application (Software) Security Architect is a senior, hands-on, engineering focused position, responsible for helping to establish and permeate a Secure SDLC and ‘Secure by design’ approach and practice throughout all our Architecture and Software engineering teams.

The role will involve:

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining application security architecture across the organization
• Ensuring our systems are designed with objectives like speed, scalability, robustness, zero-trust, automation and supportability at the core
• Collaborate with the Architecture and engineering team to ensure security is an integral part of all development and deployment processes
• Providing expert software security advice (design, coding, testing, etc) to the Software Engineering community, to InfoSec, DevOps and other colleagues
• Defining and delivering secure software development of information to the software engineering teams
• Escalating issues appropriately, to various teams and levels of authority inside the organisation.
• Interfacing with our customers to ensure that security obligations are managed and met appropriately

About You

To be successful in the role of Application Security Architect, you should have a strong grasp and practical experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including roles such as Developer or Senior Tester. Familiarity with multiple programming languages, such as C++/C/C#, .NET core, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular, and React, will be beneficial.

You will also have/be:

• Experience in creating application security strategies, standards, best practices, and providing direct input to project teams and business stakeholders is essential.
• Good experience working with security issues in software architecture, software development, e.g static and/or dynamic code analysis and tools, software dependency check, OWASP Top10 testing, application threat modelling etc.
• Good experience working in an Agile software development environment, with classic applications as well as microservices, using modern code processing and continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo etc.)
• Good expertise in taking security policy statements and translating them into actual, implementable, security controls and techniques that can make our software applications demonstrably more secure and robust
• Good understanding of common information security management standards, frameworks, and laws / regulations: E.g. ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR etc.
• Experience of open-source security tools and how they could be uses in an enterprise
• Experience of securing Azure cloud workloads and environments.

About Us

Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading PropTech businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector.  With well-known application suites, online services and massive national scale property data as well as premier geospatial datasets we are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the industry.

We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets.  This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.