IT Security Architect

About the role

Old Mutual is seeking an experienced IT Security Architect to lead security assurance across its Africa regions. You will shape enterprise‑level security architecture, ensure compliance with financial‑sector regulations, and protect critical data and systems.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security architecture principles, standards, and reference models.
• Lead security architecture reviews and provide sign‑off for technology initiatives.
• Ensure solutions meet internal policies, regulatory requirements, and risk standards.
• Support compliance with cybersecurity and data‑protection regulations across multiple markets.
• Assess security implications of outsourced services, fintech integrations, and third‑party arrangements.
• Define and enforce security controls for cloud platforms, integrations and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Perform threat modelling and risk assessments with key security stakeholders.
• Recommend mitigations for vulnerabilities and collaborate on remediation and validation.
• Monitor emerging threats, technology trends and drive continuous improvement of security architecture maturity.
• Help build the security architecture practice, including methods, repositories and tools.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or a related field.
• Preferred certifications: CISSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF.
• Proven experience in security architecture design, enterprise/solution architecture and cloud security (AWS and/or Azure).
• Experience with API and integration security, and Zero Trust Architecture principles.

Required skills

• Identity and Access Management
• Network security
• Infrastructure security
• Application security
• API security
• Zero Trust Architecture
• AWS
• Azure