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As a GDS Senior Data Security Architect working in the Office of the Government Chief Data Officer, you’ll be collaborating with other government departments to develop and publish data security standards for government and the wider public sector. You’ll have an understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and devops cultures. With the ability to drive through an agenda, you will be collaborating with other teams in GDS, including our consulting technical architects, the technology policy team, tech writers, and others, as standards are developed and shaped. This will also mean delivering presentations to various stakeholders at all levels. The role will include travel to different government departments and agencies, therefore there must be a willingness to undertake this. As a Senior Data Security Architect you’ll: develop data security standards for government advise on data security for government services perform threat modelling as part of a security risk assessment apply Secure by Design activities to government services identify opportunities to use novel privacy-enhancing technologies to enable data-driven collaboration without compromising on privacy and security contribute to API design, including how to make APIs secure develop data security controls to mitigate risks applying to AI systems work in agile multi-disciplinary teams, with software developers using tools such as Github and following continuous delivery and devops practices