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Reporting to the Senior Manager Security Engineering, you will play a key role in strengthening Avant’s enterprise security architecture capability while embedding secure-by-design practices across technology initiatives. You will work across both enterprise security architecture and hands-on solution delivery, partnering with Security Engineering, Cyber Defence, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture and delivery teams to ensure security designs are pragmatic, proportionate to risk and able to be implemented and supported effectively. 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