<div class="clearfix"></div><h1 class="job-title axiom0-0 axiom-scraped-0">Information Security Architect</h1><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><p>Howdens Joinery have an exciting brand-new opportunity as an Information Security Architect to join our growing Cyber team.</p><p>As our trusted expert and advisor, you’ll design secure, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions that empower Howdens’ digital transformation while protecting what matters most. You’ll work at the cutting edge of infrastructure, cloud, and application security — influencing key design decisions and ensuring our technology landscape remains resilient, compliant, and ready for the future.</p><p>This is a permanent opportunity based from our office in Northampton where you will be required to work onsite 2 days per week.</p><p><strong>What will I be doing as an InfoSec Architect?</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>Engage with stakeholders to understand and balance competing business needs, technical constraints, and security requirements, ensuring practical and effective outcomes.</li><li>Lead and contribute to solution design and re-architecture initiatives, assessing technical options in partnership with the Head of Information Security and Enterprise Architecture, and ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable, and scalable.</li><li>Conduct proactive security architecture reviews of planned and existing systems to identify risks, validate control effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement in design and posture.</li><li>Assist in the evaluation and procurement of security technologies, ensuring alignment with organisational standards and architecture principles.</li><li>Investigates alerts to determine their legitimacy and impact, prioritises response actions based on severity, and coordinates containment and remediation activities when threats are confirmed.</li><li>Assists with proactive hunting activities to uncover undetected threats and helps build hypotheses based on threat intelligence, behavioural patterns, and environmental baselines.</li><li>Performs regular updates and tuning of detection rules, playbooks, and alert thresholds to reduce false positives and ensure high-fidelity threat detection.</li><li>Act as a champion to promote and raise awareness of Information Security best practice and ensure compliance to security policy.</li></ul><p><strong>What we need from you:</strong></p><ul><li>Information Security with a strong architecture focus.</li><li>Strong knowledge in lateral movement risks, network segmentation, and endpoint security.</li><li>Extensive experience with Windows and Linux OS’s.</li><li>Skilled in protocol analysis, network architecture, and infrastructure design.</li><li>Hold recognised Cyber Security qualification (CISSP, CISM or equivalent).</li><li>Knowledge of industry related frameworks such as ISO27001, PCI DSS, Zero Trust</li><li>Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels.</li><li>Ability to work with and manage 3rd party suppliers.</li><li>Experience of managing change.</li><li>Drive and resilience.</li><li>Presentation experience.</li><li>Training and accreditation in industry recognised technologies</li><li>Skilled in presentation and training techniques in matters of IT security (Beneficial)</li></ul><p><strong>What we can offer you </strong></p><ul><li>Competitive salary and annual company bonus</li><li>Company car or car allowance</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Excellent pension scheme (company matched of up to 12%)</li><li>25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days</li><li>Staff Discount</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Exceptional Reward and Recognition events</li></ul><p><strong>About Howdens:</strong></p><p>Howdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware.&nbsp; We have over 900 depots throughout the UK and Europe – making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals.&nbsp;&nbsp;Last year our sales reached circa 2.3bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda.&nbsp;</p><p>As well as the opportunity to develop within a fast paced and commercial environment, you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in the&nbsp;Best Big Companies to Work For.</p><p><strong>#LI-HG1</strong></p></div><div class="sharelinks"><div class="linkedinbutton sharebutton pull-left"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><span class="IN-widget" data-lnkd-debug="<script type=&quot;in/share+init&quot; data-counter=&quot;right&quot; data-url=&quot;https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/howdens/vms/e/careers/positions/cbpWcJlpvjrzacplMzgV9j&quot;></script>" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1; vertical-align: bottom; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="padding: 0px !important; 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