Senior Security Solutions Architect

About the Role

The Senior Security Solutions Architect will be responsible for consulting with clients and working with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs, and architectural visions for complex solutions that address client needs. This role provides multi-technology architecture and consulting services on all aspects of security application software, infrastructure, and related technology components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
• Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
• Act as a technology security SME that understands the threat landscape, architectural models, and solutions and possesses the ability to discuss and present to senior client stakeholders and technical members.
• Take customer's technical, financial, and business requirements into consideration in order to recommend optimal security solution and also deliver presentation, proposals, included with bill of material as result.
• Develop and/or enhance security reference architecture for clients in key verticals such as BFSI, Public Sector, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail etc.
• Stay current with international security standards, best practices, and in-country security regulations.
• Work closely with internal teams to increase the adoption of our cybersecurity solutions to customers through marketing campaigns, customer meetings, community building, and actively involved in executing Go-To-Market strategy for cybersecurity in-country.
• Support a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Be accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis, and problem resolution.
• Monitor the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Create reports and technology roadmaps and share knowledge and insights with others.
• Design components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.
• Create multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
• Review, verify, and improve own designs against specifications.
• Make recommendations for the development of new go-to-market services and contribute knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
• Work with clients and internal teams to write proposals, SOW, reference architecture, etc.
• Support RFPs and large bids as a security SME working jointly with multi-BU stakeholders and/or leading cybersecurity bid responses.
• Be flexible to acquire new skills and show willingness in learning/re-learning and un-learning things as needed for the success of this role and the overall cybersecurity practice.
• Demonstrate strong skills in analysing customer business processes and technical environments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to our clients on Cybersecurity domain.
• Actively participate in knowledge sharing with all team members.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.
• Work closely with NTT Cybersecurity sales specialist during client engagements.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS's, and infrastructure designs.
• Working knowledge of security risk and control frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SABSA, etc.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to develop and leverage their advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Advanced ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as sales, product, delivery, etc.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Required degree level education, or significant experience and track record with tertiary qualifications on relevant domains, including computer science, computer engineering, and information security.
• Being certified in CISSP, CISM, CC, Security+, CCSE, CCSK, CRISC will be an added advantage.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, SABSA, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).

Required Experience

• Possess at least 7-10 years of working experience related to cybersecurity pre-sales and architect roles.
• At least 5 years experience of working experience as a Security Architect with a System Integrator or at least advanced experience in integrating the solutions across business domains, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with security solutions from Tier-1 Security OEMs.
• Security architect experience supporting the key practice domains such as Network Security & SASE, Cloud Security, App & Data Security, Workplace Security, OT/ICS Security, and Security Operations.
• Ability to work in a matrix organisation.
• Ability to work with diverse and dynamic teams.
• Demonstrate excellent skills in structured problem-solving techniques, creativity, and intelligence in the development of solutions to customer problems.
• Must have good presentation skills with the ability to present to audiences of both business and IT stakeholders.
• Must have strong written communication, whiteboarding, and writing skills.
• Advanced client engagement and pre-sales experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solutions across business domains, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.
• Advanced experience in developing, selling, and delivering technical solutions. System Integrator experience will be an added advantage.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
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