Senior Security Architect

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As a Senior Security Architect at NTT DATA, you will play an essential role in collaborating with clients and internal teams to create advanced, transformational cybersecurity designs and architectural visions for complex solutions. Your expertise will drive the development of multi-technology consulting services that span application software, infrastructure, and related technology components, including services. 
You will contribute to complex cybersecurity solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas while evaluating alternative architectures for cost, performance, and scalability. By developing detailed specifications for cloud-based or on-premises cybersecurity components, you will ensure robust, cutting-edge solutions that meet our clients' unique needs.
Your hands-on role will involve preparing technical plans and designs that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards, remaining agile to adapt to changing project requirements. You will be accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting DATA, delivering thorough analysis, and providing effective problem resolution.
Keeping ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies and threats, you will produce insightful solutions and technology roadmaps, sharing your knowledge with internal teams and clients alike. By creating multiple design views, you will address both functional and non-functional cybersecurity requirements, offering innovative solutions with proof-of-concept (POC) implementations. You will also mentor and guide less experienced colleagues, contributing to our collaborative culture.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, operating systems, and infrastructure designs.
• In-depth understanding of how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, and COBIT.
• Ability to develop and utilize advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Extensive experience in technical, IT, or operations roles within large-scale technology services environments.
• Strong client engagement and consulting experience, including needs assessment and change management.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams such as sales, product, and delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A continuous learning mindset to stay updated on trends and developments in technology domains.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of complex cybersecurity solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises cybersecurity components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Creates solution packs and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Creates 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).
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
• Makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.

 

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs.
• 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 cybersecurity platforms and systems 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.
• Ability to work independently and taking solution leadership across technology solutions and service offerings. 

 

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• CISSP and/or CISM prefered

 

Required experience:

• Advanced professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support.
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices.
• Advanced experience in developing, selling and delivering technical and services solutions.
• Experience working at a system integrator in a similar pre-sales role of function. 
• Experience with statement of work creation and cost modelling. 

 

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
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