Cyber Cloud, Data and AI Enterprise Architect

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role

The Cyber Cloud, Data and AI Enterprise Architect is a senior technical role responsible for developing, maintaining, and governing the organization’s enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture for cloud, data, and AI environments. This position ensures that cloud, data, and AI security strategies, frameworks, and solutions align with business objectives, effectively mitigate risks, support regulatory compliance, and enable secure adoption of cloud platforms, data analytics, and artificial intelligence technologies across the enterprise. The role requires strong product selection skills with deep expertise in cloud security, data protection, and AI security architectures.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy, frameworks, standards, patterns, and roadmaps specifically for cloud, data, and AI environments.

• Provide expert technical leadership and guidance on cloud, data, and AI cybersecurity architecture for IT projects, systems, and strategic initiatives.

• Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, data and AI teams, and key stakeholders to align cloud, data, and AI security architecture with organisational goals and risk appetite.

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and recommendation of cybersecurity solutions for cloud platforms, data environments, and AI systems, including cloud-native security controls, data protection technologies, and AI-specific security measures.

• Establish and enforce cloud, data, and AI architecture governance processes, including architecture review boards and compliance with defined standards.

• Oversee risk assessments related to cloud, data, and AI architectural designs and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Mentor, develop, and provide technical guidance to a team of cybersecurity architects, engineers, and related professionals specialising in cloud, data, and AI security.

• Contribute to incident response planning and ensure architectural resilience against cloud, data, and AI-specific cyber threats.

• Communicate complex cloud, data, and AI cybersecurity architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.

• 10 years in IT, with at least 7 years in cybersecurity (including significant experience in architecture or design of cloud, data, or AI security solutions).

• CISSP & CISM

• Strong product selection and evaluation skills for cloud security platforms, data security tools, and AI security solutions.

• Strong background in cloud security frameworks (e.g., CSA CCM, NIST, Azure Well-Architected Framework), data governance, privacy-by-design, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, NIS Regulations, ISO 27001, DORA).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience designing and governing cybersecurity solutions for complex cloud, data, and AI environments in large-scale, hybrid, and multi-cloud settings.

• Hands-on architectural expertise in cloud security (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), data protection and privacy architectures, and AI/ML security (including model security, adversarial AI, and secure AI pipelines).

• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business, data, and AI needs into secure, scalable, and resilient architectures.

• Excellent influencing, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Sound commercial awareness and understanding of how robust cloud, data, and AI cybersecurity architecture supports business value, innovation, and risk reduction.

• Up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging cyber threats, attack techniques, and defensive technologies in cloud, data, and AI environments relevant to the UK and international operations.

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Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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