Senior Security Solutions Architect

DXC Technology; Cowbridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational IT service provider is seeking a skilled IT Security professional with 5-10 years of experience. This role involves providing tailored security solutions, working with clients, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Candidates should possess strong presentation and proposal writing skills and familiarity with security frameworks. The position is located in Cowbridge, Wales, and candidates must be eligible for UK security clearance.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in IT Security, mainly in roles like Security Pre-Sales or Cyber Security Consultant.
• Understanding of NCSC Secure design principles and NIST framework would be beneficial.
• Ability to work as lead for components of large complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer needs and provide tailored security solutions.
• Address Security and Compliance requirements effectively.
• Lead service element integration and solution activities.

Skills

IT Security experience

Consultative selling techniques

Proposal writing

Presentation skills in English

Understanding of security certifications

Education

Technical University or Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cyber Security certifications like CISSP, CCSP, CISA

ITIL

PMP certifications

Job description

Job Description

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

Opportunity Analysis

• Understanding which security offerings best addresses customer needs and business requirements
• Ongoing qualification of solution merits

Solution Design and Development

• Providing security solutions to meet client’s requirements and being able to adapt to new requirements
• Addressing Security and Compliance requirements
• Optimizing security solutions plus broader customer IT strategy
• Taking end to end view of solution, ensuring elements within their responsibility deliver against the defined business outcomes, using standard components
• Working with financial analysts to validate results versus applicable criteria
• Capturing and highlighting risks and any associated costs
• Modelling multiple offerings/components of security domains
• Understanding interaction of deal variables (compliance, volumes, services, service level agreements, locations, and more) between tower components
• Delivering and owning accurate financial models that are logically structured and reflect technical solution

Solution Leadership

• Experience in directing solution activities
• Ability to lead service element integration
• Providing security solutions to meet client needs inclusive of Regulatory and Compliance requirement and being able to adapt to new requirements

Solution-Pursuit Integration

• Anticipating, communicating and solution to optimize inter-tower dependencies, overlaps, staff sharing etc
• Effectively integrating client tools, process adoption and delivery startup/transition needs
• Clearly defining all risks through governance process and working to mitigate

Client/Customer/Account Relationship

• Understanding and addressing CISO / CxO issues
• Applying consultative selling techniques to advance opportunities
• Participating in supports negotiation of technical contract elements
• Providing solution advice, driving proposals, presentations, and other customer communications during pursuit
• Input to security offering teams to bring in changes to offerings as per latest security trends and compliance needs

Required

• 5-10 years in IT Security, mainly as one of follows Security Pre-Sales, Security Engineering, Cyber Security Consultant and Solution Architect.
• Technical University or bachelor’s preferred.
• Preferred experience in Central Government/UK Public Sector/CNI.
• Understanding of NCSC Secure design principles, NCSC Cloud Security Principles and NIST framework would be beneficial.
• Good exposure to pre-sales role involved in Cyber Security Solutioning and understanding the Security Market.
• Involvement in architecting and proposing cyber security solutions to customer, experience in Managed Security Services market
• Broad knowledge of outsourcing services and solutions with expertise in area of specialisation
• Preferably having any of Security certifications like – CISSP, CCSP, CISA and/or Security Product certifications. ITIL and PMP certifications are good to have.
• Good understanding of Security Risk & Compliance domain, Regulatory and Compliance requirements
• Ability to work as lead for components of large complex projects.
• Good proposal writing and presentation skills in English.
• Must be able to obtain or hold UK BPSS/SC Clearance (Must be resident for minimum 5 years in UK)