Job Summary
Join one of the UK’s leading healthcare organisations at the forefront of clinical excellence and digital innovation. As a Cyber Security Architect within our eHospital team, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the systems that underpin world-class patient care at Cambridge University Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate cyber security professional to shape and influence how a major NHS Trust protects its digital assets, responds to emerging threats, and ensures compliance with national standards. You will provide expert technical leadership, guide secure design across new and existing systems, and help the organisation stay resilient in a rapidly evolving cyber landscape.
Working alongside technical specialists, clinical teams, and senior leaders, you will make a real impact — strengthening our cyber posture, supporting patient safety, and contributing to the digital future of a vital healthcare service.
If you want your expertise to directly support care, safety and excellence for thousands of patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a Cyber Security Architect, you will play a key role in ensuring the security and resilience of CUH’s digital services. You will:
- Provide expert technical guidance on cyber security across new and existing systems, ensuring compliance with NHS, legal, and national cyber standards.
- Lead the technical assurance of system designs, supplier solutions, and internal services to ensure secure, robust architectures.
- Support the Trust’s management of cyber threats, including vulnerability management, incident response, patching oversight, and threat-led risk assessments.
- Deliver and contribute to cyber security projects using recognised project management principles.
- Monitor and report on cyber security risks, incidents, and compliance, providing clear recommendations and mitigation plans.
- Build strong relationships with IT teams, clinical departments, and external partners to raise security awareness and promote best practice.
- Provide specialist advice to inform Trust policies, governance forums, audits, and the national Data Security & Protection Toolkit.
- Represent the Trust in NHS cyber security forums and liaise with national authorities on alerts and emerging threats.
- Contribute to security training and ongoing awareness across the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1. General education to degree level, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
- 2. A recognised Cyber Security Qualification
Desirable
- 3. PRINCE/MSP or other project management qualification
- 4. ITIL qualification (Foundation or Practitioner level).
Experience
Essential
- 1. IT and or Cyber Security work experience (to Master’s degree or equivalent level)
- 2. Undertaking of a Lead role in relation to Cyber Security for a large organisation
Desirable
- 3. Experience of delivery of benefits from the implementation of technology systems and or services
- 4. IT support service delivery
- 5. Benchmarking experience
Knowledge
Essential
- 1. Awareness of specialist knowledge of cyber security, digital asset protection & recovery processes
- 2. High degree of ability to make complex judgments and solve complex process and analytical problems
- 3. Knowledge of IT cyber security management and compliance in the NHS
Desirable
- 4. Knowledge of modern infrastructure design patterns, both on-premises or public cloud.
- 5. IT background is at least in part within a health or health-related industry.
- 6. Knowledge of cyber security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, SABSA, OWASP
Skills
Essential
- 1. Excellent people management skills and communication skills
- 2. Excellent communication skills – with ability to communicate complex information to large groups of staff and senior executives and clinicians.
- 3. Ability to resolve complex process and analytical problems
- 4. Ability to make decisions based on complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, or comparison of a range of options
- 5. Excellent analytical skills
- 6. Highly developed Cyber Security management skills
- 7. Ability to develop own education and knowledge of emerging or new technologies.
Desirable
- 8. Sound risk management skills
- 9. Excellent MS Office or similar skills including Excel and Project
- 10. Sound project management skills
Additional Requirements
Essential
- 1. The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
- 2. The following hazards are associated with this job role: oManual handling
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 18 February 2026
