UI Architect, Sophos
$183-305k
+ Bonus eligibility
More information about location
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
Open for applications
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$183-305k
+ Bonus eligibility
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop powerful and intuitive products and services that provide the world's most effective cybersecurity for organizations of any size.
Role
Who you are
- Repeated track record of successfully leading and delivering large complex projects that impact the success of their business unit
- Defines technical strategies/architecture for multiple functional areas that sometimes extend outside their BU (technical and non-technical) and understands, influences, and creates technical designs for products/features from inception to completion that have impacted many teams/projects across the company and had a direct revenue or profitability impact
- Proven experience as a UI Architect with a focus on React, Angular Framework and Cloud based development
- Balanced architectural needs with business dynamics to ensure commercial viability in development direction and implementation decisions
- Is a sought-out, respected mentor and technical advisor for Senior Engineers, Senior Managers and above, trained others in best engineering practices for peer review of code, designs, specifications and unit tests
- Designed and developed complete software features or components, made recommendations to solve product-wide issues and learned hard lessons of what does or doesn’t work over multiple updates and versions
- Collaborates with other peers and senior leadership across all departments (technical and non-technical) to influence and deliver on Sophos objectives
- Has held teams to high-standards and made significant improvements to the quality of processes or deliverables
- Developed advanced/leading-edge technologies and/or concepts that have applicability within the security industry
- Enforce coding standards, conduct code reviews, and implement best practices to maintain high quality maintainability code
- Ability to influence, coach, and lead by example is critical in this environment, and to be successful in this role
- Bachelors of Science in Computer Software, Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Knowledgeable in all product-relevant technologies
- Agile software development methodologies experience, especially understanding the practical implications of what is valuable and what is not
- Builds external alliances with customers and industry experts to gain and share information about industry trends
- Acute awareness of industry trends in cybersecurity and their areas of technical specialization
- Fluency in more than one relevant programming language
- Appetite for and adept at interpersonal and intercultural relationship coaching and mentoring
- Strong knowledge of Endpoint detection, EDR, MDR, analytics based security and security threat landscape
What the job involves
- This position will be responsible for providing technical thought leadership, tactical advice, and strategic direction to the Central platform UI design team
- Provide hands-on guidance and support to designers, developers, UX team and product managers throughout the full product delivery cycle
- Align this work with Sophos's strategic goals across all Central hosted applications across the entire product portfolio, considering the Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) paradigms
- Leverage insights from Threat Intelligence, Labs, Data Science, and Managed Threat Response teams to drive significantly differentiated, industry-leading user experiences
- This position reports to the Chief Architect
- Define the Central platform UI architectural vision for product teams and influence teams to ensure releases align with that vision
- Ensure the UI integrates seamlessly with the broader "ACE" architecture for data ingestion, processing, access, policy, APIs, and telemetry
- Provide technical leadership within Sophos by identifying and guiding individuals to understand end-to-end product development, uncover true user requirements, and help engineering build the right features with optimal usability
- Significantly impact future products and technologies, and business strategies by providing long-term UI direction and vision, and generating creative solutions that enable innovative ways of executing on Sophos's opportunities
- Drive strategic and tactical innovation in UI design, working closely with the products teams, UX teams, Threat Intelligence, Machine Learning and DevOps, to ensure a cohesive and differentiated user experience
- Work directly with development teams, writing code when necessary, to drive the creation of feature-rich, industry-leading products with exceptional usability and intuitiveness
- Collaborate with UX team to and engineering leads to define, support, and influence standard UI/UX design practices, quality assurance, and engineering rigor for secure cloud-based development
- Build alliances with customers and industry experts Keep abreast of industry UI/UX innovation to gain and share information about emerging UI/UX trends and best practices
- Own the UI architecture review process for Sophos's product lines and continuously improve it
- Influence the roadmaps of key external technology partners, vendors, and standards bodies to shape the future of Sophos's user experiences
- Help engineers identify and articulate patent ideas related to innovative UI/UX concepts
- Anticipate internal and external business and legislative issues impacting Sophos's products and technologies, and apply that understanding to enhance the user experience
- Occasional travel to engineering offices which includes UK (Abingdon), USA (Burlington) and Canada (Vancouver), India (New Delhi)
- Available to make voice and video conferences to suit the core hours / time zones of remote product development sites in UK, Burlington and Vancouver
Our take
Due to the fast-evolving nature of cybercrime, companies can struggle to keep their security up-to-date and resilient. Sophos provides managed cybersecurity services to identify and resolve cyberthreats within all sizes of organisations, combining cutting edge cybersecurity tech with expert support teams.
Leveraging AI and machine learning, Sophos' system automates the detection and blocking of over 99% of threats, meaning its analysts only have to hunt down and stop the most sophisticated attackers. As well as its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) product - which, serving over 15,000 customers, is the most-used on the market - the company also delivers Incident Response Services for those experiencing an active threat.
Sophos is not a new player in the cybersecurity space, but has demonstrated its dedication to innovation with continued product launches, updates, and acquisitions such as that of BAE spinout SOC.OS that have kept its tech at the front of the market. Alongside many of its peers, the effects of the economic climate have caused Sophos to cut staff as it focusses on achieving “the optimal balance of growth and profitability", but this recent hiccup does not take away from its position as a market leader continuously leading adaption in the space.
Kirsty
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Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $2.7m
Company benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
Company values
- Simplicity: We strive to embrace design, automation, and re-engineering across our products and business operations. We aim to create instinctive next-gen products that provide IT professionals with exactly what they need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.
- Empowerment: We support and enable people to do great work. We trust people to take ownership, to take smart risks, and to deliver results. We encourage people to take action, to seek knowledge, and to question actions inconsistent with our mission, values, or principles.
- Passion: We care intensely about our success and our impact. We maintain high standards and continuously strive to improve. We inspire others.
- Innovation: We stay at the forefront and advance the boundaries of what is possible. If we fail, we do it quickly, learn, share the lessons learned, and move forward. We always seek better approaches to what we do.
- Authenticity: We are genuine, transparent, and honest. We admit our mistakes and strive to remain self-aware. We say what we think, even if it might be difficult.
Company HQ
Abingdon, UK
Articles
Leadership
Kris Hagerman
(CEO, not founder)Former CEO of Corel Corporation, who previously served as Group President of Data Center Management at Symantec. Was also Executive VP and GM of Storage and Server Management at Veritas Software, as well as CEO and Founder of both Bigbook and Affinia.
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