Lead security capability architect


Company:	Jisc
Salary:	from £60,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bristol, BS1 6NB
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 4 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Oct 2026
Closing date:	1 Nov 2026

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Summary

About the Team:

Jisc’s Security Team safeguards the Janet Network whilst also sharing intelligence and advising our members to keep their own networks safe. We draw on a range of market leading solutions, combined with in-house tools, benefiting from the team's expertise in developing a service best suited to our members.

The security capability development function sits alongside the CTI and SOC teams. The CTI team gathers and analyses threat intelligence to ensure our defences are informed by current and emerging adversary activity. The SOC is provided as an Education and Research sector focused service, which requires input from both threat intelligence and a capability development function, to continue delivering detections that are ahead of the threats as well as new solutions that keep pace with member requirements.

About the role:

The Lead Security Capability Architect is a senior technical role responsible for building a function dedicated to the research and development of new security capabilities. This function will shape the future of our SOC, ensuring it remains effective, adaptive and ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

This role has a multifaceted responsibility for research, engineering and security operations. It will require a deep technical knowledge with the ability to identify strategic opportunities for improvement, translating operational requirements into workable solutions and lead the full development lifecycle, taking a solution from initial concept to operational handover.

Working closely with the CTI team and security engineers, the role will ensure that new capabilities are developed collaboratively, informed by intelligence and built to a standard that enables seamless transition into long-term operational management.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the end-to-end development of new security tools, integrations, automations and services.

• Oversee the full development lifecycle from requirements gathering through design, build, testing and documentation, ensuring solutions are built to a standard that enables a clean handover for long-term management.

• Work closely with SOC and CTI leadership to understand operational pain points and translate them into capability requirements.

• Engage with vendors and external partners as required during evaluation and development phases.

• Build, lead and develop the security capability function as it establishes and grows.

• Act as a point of escalation and technical authority within the team.

• Continuously assess the threat landscape, vendor market and open-source community to identify emerging tools and technologies relevant to the SOC and CTI teams.

• Evaluate new capabilities through structured proof-of-concept and pilot processes.

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