Senior Security Technical Architect/Cisco Security

London Hybrid

Inside ir35

12 months

The Security Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for designing robust security architectures and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that technology solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with industry best practices. Expertise will be crucial in protecting sensitive data, mitigating risks, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organization systems. The individual will possess deep security architectural expertise and have significant experience of working with Cisco security products as this will be one of the key focus growth areas.

The security architect will be responsible for delivering product demos to customers across the UK&I and work with the security specialist team to identify solutions that are the best fit for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops complex and comprehensive security architectures for our systems, applications, and infrastructure, considering both current and future needs.

• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and collaborates with stakeholders, including developers, engineers, and project managers, to integrate security requirements into the system design and development life cycle.

• Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analysing client requirements, in conjunction with the client's current security capabilities.

• Provides guidance and expertise in secure coding practices, network security, identity and access management, data protection, and other security domains.

• Evaluates and selects security technologies, tools, and frameworks to support our security architecture

• Ensures technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives

• Defines and applies security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

• Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.

• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.

• Assists with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.

• Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.

• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build/implementation to the delivery team.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Understanding of security vendor's products business and technology positioning, in particular Cisco security products and how they can be integrated into an existing infrastructure.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, analyze complex security issues, and propose effective solutions.

• Knowledge of security domains, including network security, application security, cloud security, data protection, identity and access management, cryptography, and secure coding practices.

• Proficiency in enterprise architecture principles, frameworks

• Understanding of security regulations, standards, and frameworks (such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS etc and their practical application

• Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).

• Security vendor product, sales and technology certifications - Cisco

• Experience with security technologies and tools, such as Firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, SIEM, vulnerability scanners, IAM and risk