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    "description": "<p>InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. 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. <br>Join us to be a part of the AI revolution!</p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">About the role </span><br>We 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.<br>This 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.<br>You 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.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">What you will do</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Security architecture leadership</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Own the company’s </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">reference security architecture</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> and target-state security patterns across enterprise IT, infrastructure, cloud, data, and product environments </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Define architecture principles and implementation patterns for </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; 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font-weight: bold\">IT and product environments</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Partner closely with </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Global IT Security Engineering</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> on IAM, endpoint, VPN, reverse proxy, and access-tool integration </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">AI/ML and data security architecture</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Define security architecture for </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">AI/ML workflows</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, cloud-native data platforms, and ML pipelines </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Establish and maintain </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">AI/ML trust-boundary models</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Support architecture and product teams on </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">secure AI adoption</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Shape standards for: </span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">data governance and access design </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">ML pipeline trust boundaries </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">model and data protection patterns </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">secure use of AI assistants and AI-enabled workflows </span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Architecture governance and design assurance</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lead </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">architecture review governance</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> for high-risk initiatives </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Facilitate and strengthen </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">threat modeling</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> and secure design review practices </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ensure that security principles are translated into </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">reusable, practical design patterns</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Create standards that can be adopted by architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, and product teams </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Stakeholder leadership</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Translate between </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">technical architecture language</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> and </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">governance / compliance / business language</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Work closely with: </span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Trust &amp; Security teams </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">IT Platform and IT Security Engineering </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Product and engineering leadership </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Legal and GRC </span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Coach and influence architects and technical leaders across IT, Cloud, Product, and ML environments</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Subject Matter Expert and role model in developing a Security Architecture Platform   </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Typical deliverables</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Security reference architecture </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Architecture review records and decision logs </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Threat models for high-risk systems and initiatives </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Zero Trust design patterns </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">IAM and trust-boundary architecture models </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Data and AI trust-boundary models </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Data-access design standards </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Secure implementation patterns aligned with architecture standards</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">What we are looking for</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Essential experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">5+ years</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> in enterprise and cloud security architecture </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">5+ years</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> in identity, access, and network trust design </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">3+ years</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> facilitating threat modeling and secure design reviews </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong experience defining architecture standards and translating principles into practical patterns </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience working across enterprise IT, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and product environments </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience engaging with senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical functions </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Essential skills</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Security architecture at enterprise and cloud scale </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Zero Trust and IAM architecture </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Secure integration and trust-boundary design </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Threat modeling and architecture review governance </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cloud-native security patterns </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Data security and access-control design </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong written communication and architecture documentation </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to coach and influence senior engineers and architects</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Strongly preferred</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience with </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">AI/ML workflow security</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, data governance, and cloud-native data controls </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience supporting organisations through </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">ISO 27001</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">NIS2</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, or equivalent regulated environments </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience in SaaS-heavy, cloud-first, or AI-first organisations </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Familiarity with reverse proxy, secure remote access, endpoint and identity integration patterns </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to interface effectively with </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; 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