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With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, New York, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.\nJoin us to be a part of the AI revolution!\nAbout the role\nWe are looking for a Lead Security Architect to define and evolve the company’s reference security architecture across enterprise IT, cloud, data, product, and AI/ML environments.\nThis is a senior leadership role for someone who can combine deep technical architecture capability with the ability to work across IT, Product, Cloud, Data, Legal, and Governance stakeholders. You will shape the company’s target-state architecture for Zero Trust, IAM, reverse proxy, segmentation, AI/ML trust boundaries, and secure integration patterns, while ensuring security architecture remains practical, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.\nYou will play a central role in helping the company scale securely as an AI-first, cloud-first organisation operating in a regulated context with ISO 27001, NIS2, and sensitive data protection requirements.\nWhat you will do\nSecurity architecture leadership\nOwn the company’s reference security architectureand target-state security patterns across enterprise IT, infrastructure, cloud, data, and product environments \nDefine architecture principles and implementation patterns for Zero Trust, identity, authorization, trust boundaries, segmentation, secure integration, and secure access \nSet the strategic direction for enterprise, cloud, and data security architecture\nCloud, IAM, and Zero Trust design\nDefine target-state 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strengthen threat modelingand secure design review practices \nEnsure that security principles are translated into reusable, practical design patterns\nCreate standards that can be adopted by architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, and product teams \nStakeholder leadership\nTranslate between technical architecture languageand governance / compliance / business language\nWork closely with: Trust & Security teams \nIT Platform and IT Security Engineering \nProduct and engineering leadership \nLegal and GRC \n\nCoach and influence architects and technical leaders across IT, Cloud, Product, and ML environments\nSubject Matter Expert and role model in developing a Security Architecture Platform \nTypical deliverables\nSecurity reference architecture \nArchitecture review records and decision logs \nThreat models for high-risk systems and initiatives \nZero Trust design patterns \nIAM and trust-boundary architecture models \nData and AI trust-boundary models \nData-access design standards \nSecure implementation patterns aligned with architecture standards\nWhat we are looking for\nEssential experience\n5+ yearsin enterprise and cloud security architecture \n5+ yearsin identity, access, and network trust design \n3+ yearsfacilitating threat modeling and secure design reviews \nStrong experience defining architecture standards and translating principles into practical patterns \nExperience working across enterprise IT, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and product environments \nExperience engaging with senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical functions \nEssential skills\nSecurity architecture at enterprise and cloud scale \nZero Trust and IAM architecture \nSecure integration and trust-boundary design \nThreat modeling and architecture review governance \nCloud-native security patterns \nData security and access-control design \nStrong written communication and architecture documentation \nAbility to coach and influence senior engineers and architects\nStrongly preferred\nExperience with AI/ML workflow security, data governance, and cloud-native data controls \nExperience supporting organisations through ISO 27001, NIS2, or equivalent regulated environments \nExperience in SaaS-heavy, cloud-first, or AI-first organisations \nFamiliarity with reverse proxy, secure remote access, endpoint and identity integration patterns \nAbility to interface effectively with DevOps, MLOps, Infrastructure, and Product Engineeringteams\nExpected competence\nSecurity architecture: Expert\nZero Trust / IAM design: Expert\nThreat modeling: Advanced\nStakeholder leadership: Advanced\nHow you work\nYou are likely to be someone who:\nthinks in systems, not just controls \ncan balance strategic design with pragmatic delivery \nis comfortable influencing without always owning implementation \ncan create clarity in complex multi-stakeholder environments \ncan make architecture standards usable by engineers, not just readable by auditors \nTraining 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