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Howdens Northampton, England, United Kingdom
OverviewHowdens Joinery have an exciting brand-new opportunity as an Information Security Architect to join our growing Cyber team. This permanent role is based from our office in Northampton, with onsite work required 2 days per week.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate across business, technical, and service teams to design and deliver security solutions that enhance cybersecurity maturity, reduce risk, and align with broader business objectives and priorities.
Engage with stakeholders to understand and balance competing business needs, technical constraints, and security requirements, ensuring practical and effective outcomes.
Lead and contribute to solution design and re-architecture initiatives, assessing technical options in partnership with the Head of Information Security and Enterprise Architecture, ensuring secure, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
Conduct proactive security architecture reviews of planned and existing systems to identify risks, validate control effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement in design and posture.
Assist in the evaluation and procurement of security technologies, ensuring alignment with organisational standards and architecture principles.
Investigate alerts to determine legitimacy and impact, prioritise response actions based on severity, and coordinate containment and remediation when threats are confirmed.
Assist with proactive hunting activities to uncover undetected threats and help build hypotheses based on threat intelligence, behavioural patterns, and environmental baselines.
Perform regular updates and tuning of detection rules, playbooks, and alert thresholds to reduce false positives and ensure high-fidelity threat detection.
Promote and raise awareness of Information Security best practices and ensure compliance with security policy.
What We Need From You
Information Security with a strong architecture focus.
Strong knowledge in lateral movement risks, network segmentation, and endpoint security.
Extensive experience with Windows and Linux operating systems.
Skilled in protocol analysis, network architecture, and infrastructure design.
Hold a recognised Cyber Security qualification (CISSP, CISM or equivalent).
Knowledge of industry frameworks such as ISO27001, PCI DSS, Zero Trust.
Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels.
Ability to work with and manage third-party suppliers.
Experience of managing change, drive and resilience, presentation experience.
Training and accreditation in industry recognised technologies; presentation and training techniques in IT security (beneficial).
What We Can Offer You
Competitive salary and annual company bonus
Company car or car allowance
Private medical insurance
Excellent pension scheme (company matched up to 12%)
25 days holiday + bank holidays with option to buy additional days
Staff Discount
Employee Assistance Programme
Exceptional Reward and Recognition events
About HowdensHowdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 900 depots throughout the UK and Europe, serving more than 460,000 trade professionals. Our sales reached circa 2.3bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda. We are recognised for excellence in the workplace.
How To ApplyWe’re building a future where world-class service, innovation, and sustainability are embedded within our DNA. If Howdens sounds like the kind of place to build and develop your career, we’d love to hear from you. If you need adjustments to our recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@howdens.com with the job title and location.
Job Details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Wholesale Building Materials, Retail, and Design Services
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