About Back Market
We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.
Role Overview
As our Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will translate Back Market Cyber and IT strategy into a global Cybersecurity architecture by connecting the business processes with the application, data and infrastructure layers. Your ultimate goal is to design an organisation-wide secure architectural plan. You will play a crucial role in the digital transformation within Back Market. You will be the owner for the creation of architecture models that reflect the company's strategies and goals and take responsibility for securing the enterprise architecture within one or more domains. You'll be part of the Platform Dept which covers several squads, including about thirty people working on IT, GRC, SecOps, and other areas.
Responsibilities
- Analyzing business needs from an architectural point of view to translate them into performant and coherent ICT solutions.
- Developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and adjusting the architecture in order to have a coherent framework within projects and developments.
- Presenting and developing recommendations and translating them into executable roadmaps.
- Creating secure architecture patterns for complex and large technology environments together with stakeholders.
- Identifying and specifying implementation modalities of both existing and new technologies.
- Providing guidance on enterprise architecture and systems processing in the data, application, integration, security and technology areas.
- Promoting continuous improvement and development of methodologies used.
- Proposing improvements to optimise the functionality of the IT department with a view to cost efficiency.
- Building a bridge between IT and business by advising management on complex ICT issues, ensuring decision-making.
- Reconciling conflicting requirements and functions by finding appropriate technological solutions.
- Facilitating and leading the substantive decision-making process within the project team.
- Ensuring that decisions on the projects are made on the basis of solid governance.
- Keeping abreast of evolutions and developments in IT architecture and relevant technologies.
- Conducting technical risk analyses to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks across systems, applications, architectures, and technology initiatives.
- Collaborating closely with IT teams to integrate security best practices into both the design and implementation phases of IT projects.
- Translating high-level security policies set by the GRC team into detailed technical solutions within project designs and IT changes.
- Ensuring that all new and existing IT projects are compliant with the latest security standards and practices.
- Designing and recommending security standards, security architecture principles and technical requirements.
- Performing technical risk assessments and providing technical mitigations.
At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2). No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like: - A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. - Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days. - Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.
Requirements and qualifications
- You have at least 15 years of experience within security and tech & you have previous enterprise security architecture experience.
- You breathe security architecture and get your satisfaction from delivering architectural deliverables.
- Your analytical mind enables you to understand the complex business model and associated systems.
- You bring simplicity and transparency to communication.
- You are always attentive to technological developments and know how to translate them into business opportunities.
- You keep in touch with the technical implementation aspects.
- You see documentation and communication as essential.
- In-depth knowledge of GCP cloud.
- Security by design/Zero trust/Defense in depth.
- IA security (MCP, Claude, Opencode, etc).
- Security of MAC endpoints.
- Expertise in IAM (Okta) systems and standards.
- Familiarity with compliance requirements and industry standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST frameworks.
