Security Solutions Architect

Your day at NTT DATA

The Security Solutions Architect is a seasoned subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and working with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs, and the architectural vision for complex solutions that address the client's needs.

This role provides multi-technology consulting services on all aspects of application software, infrastructure, and related technology components.

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work within different industry sectors and agreed timelines to evaluate, define &/or recommend solutions, services, and outcomes in line with cybersecurity domains.
• Leverage your core competence and delivery knowledge of Security standards, laws, regulations, frameworks, and good practices to support Security outcomes.
• Identify and develop Security requirements, functional & non-functional.
• Define and manage demos and proof of concept, and defining solution specifications for network security and infrastructure security.
• Support Complex Bid Responses, Partnership models, Solution & Service strategies, as well as detailed bottom-up pricing models.
• Maintain vendor relationships to ensure an understanding of the vendor's products, business, and technology positioning.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Single point of contact for the sales team at our clients for new requirements or questions in the area of cybersecurity.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.
• Works within medium-sized teams and/or work efforts at a client or within NTT DATA.
• Able to drive the security architecture conversations with the clients over cybersecurity operations and incident response services.
• Comfortable with a wide range of Security solutions, services, and technologies, having a broad Security perspective.
• Applied knowledge of concepts and principles of 'Secure by Design' and 'Zero Trust.'

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Hold relevant and recognized professional Security & Security Technology certifications that support the role & your SMEs space.

Required Experience:

• More than 8 years of experience in Cyber Security with at least 4 years in technical solutions and presales.
• Experience working in a customer-facing role and comfortable presenting to small to medium audiences on both technical topics.
• Experienced in UAE/Qatar Markets and well connected with Cybersecurity Vendors, especially in the Network Security domain.
• Must have working technical knowledge of security technologies (across multiple domains such as Firewalls, WAF, SASE, SIEM, MDR, XDR, Threat Intelligence, SOAR, etc.).
• Experience in preparing technical architecture blueprints and responding to large-scale complex RFPs is highly desirable.
• Broad experience and understanding of security trends, threat landscape, and frameworks such as the cyber kill-chain.
• Experience with Security Architecture Design Principles, Cloud Security Projects, and Cloud Security Concepts is preferred.