Lead Security Architect
Tesco Insurance • Edinburgh • Permanent • Apply by 20-Mar-2026
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary - Between £76,400 - £114,600 + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - WL2, Permanent
Location - Edinburgh, Reigate, Glasgow or Newcastle
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh, Reigate, Glasgow or Newcastle office, 1-3 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close 20th March at 5pm
We're looking for a Lead Security Architect to join our Insurance, Money & Services team.
This is a leadership role accountable for shaping and governing our enterprise security architecture strategy. You will define modern security architecture principles, provide expert design assurance, and influence technology decisions across major programmes. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, you'll embed secure‑by‑design thinking, champion Zero Trust principles, and ensure that our solutions protect customers, colleagues, and critical services.
What you'll be doing
•Define and maintain the enterprise security architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment to business strategy and regulatory requirements.
•Lead security assurance activities - design reviews, threat modelling, and control validation - ensuring solutions meet our security standards and risk appetite.
•Set security architecture principles and standards, driving adoption of industry frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and Zero Trust.
•Influence senior stakeholders, shaping technology strategy, investment decisions, and architectural direction across the organisation.
•Develop and lead the security architecture function, coaching architects and building capability across teams.
•Provide authoritative guidance on remediation of design gaps and non compliance, partnering with delivery teams to embed security early and prevent downstream issues.
We need you to have
•Security architecture expertise: Proven experience leading enterprise level security architecture, security assurance (design review, threat modelling, control validation), and governance across complex environments.
•Leadership & communication: Ability to influence senior leaders, guide strategic decisions, and develop technical talent.
•Technical & regulatory knowledge: Strong understanding of security frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001), secure design principles, and emerging technologies, alongside awareness of regulatory and operational compliance requirements.
•Professional certifications (desirable):
•CISSP, CISM, SABSA, CCSP, TOGAF, or cloud architecture certifications (AWS/Azure).
We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What's in it for you
•Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
•Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year.
•Critical Illness Insurance.
•Performance related annual bonus.
•Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
•Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
•Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
•A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
•Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Interviews
We know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we're committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.
Interviews are expected to be held from w/c 30 March 2026.
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?
Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.
So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.
Let's make everyday a little better.
Our story
Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.
We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes - people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!