Chief Enterprise Architect (Cisco - Network Security)

Computacenter (UK) Ltd; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter (UK) Ltd in the United States seeks a Security Chief Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise security strategy across data center and network environments, guiding architecture decisions and governance to enable business outcomes.

You will collaborate with CISOs and security teams, demonstrate deep vendor and technology neutrality, and help shape capability roadmaps while aligning with EA principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience as a Lead or Domain Enterprise Architect.
• Experience with top OEMs in Network & Data Security (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, Splunk, Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Fortinet, Dell).
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Excellent communication skills bridging technical and business terminology.
• Proven track record building relationships with customer CISOs and security teams.
• Ability to influence technology and business leaders as a trusted thought leader.
• Technology-neutral approach focused on value and outcomes.
• Ability to estimate proposed solution commercials.
• Strong interpersonal, planning, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services aligned with company objectives.
• Design and propose security architectures and use-cases for data center and enterprise networks.
• Lead the creation of Domain Tech Strategies adopted by stakeholders.
• Maintain a current view of Enterprise Architecture to support business and tech strategies.
• Support capability roadmaps and portfolio prioritization.
• Ensure architecture governance and tooling support Solution Architecture teams.
• Collaborate with Solution Architecture to ensure viable tech strategy within EA principles.
• Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning.
• Keep EA tooling information up to date and comprehensive.
• Develop architecture tools and techniques to empower the practice.
• Embrace Computacenter's mission and core values.

Skills

Network security

Enterprise architecture

Zero trust

Threat detection

Stakeholder management

Public speaking

Vendor relations

Job description

About the role

The Security Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) is a high-impact, technical thought-leader responsible for assisting clients in architecting enterprise-grade security solutions. You will assist our clients in meeting the challenge to protect and enable large-scale data center and networking environments to achieve their business outcomes. The Security CEA, (as an infrastructure and data security subject matter expert) is a difference maker in customer engagements. You combine deep network and security expertise with business acumen to drive the success of our clients’ major infrastructure initiatives. As a member of the broader Solution Sales Organization; your focus is on the sales goals & growth of our own business.

Annual Salary Range: $160K - $200K USD

What you'll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• As a Network Infrastructure Security thought-leader, you’ll design and propose security architectures and solution use-cases for data center and enterprise networks. Your most significant contributions will be delivered in areas such as
  micro-segmentation, zero trust network architecture, secure multitenancy & hybrid clouds, data protection, threat detection & response, identity & access management and policy creation & enforcement.
• Lead the creation and evolution of a Domain Tech Strategies that are adopted by your domain and technology business stakeholders
• Create and maintain a current and target view of our Enterprise Architecture to deliver our business and technology strategies.
• Support business and technology change through capability roadmaps that inform Portfolio prioritization.
• Establish and assure effective architecture governance and tooling to support Solution Architecture and other GIS teams.
• Work closely with our Solution Architecture function ensuring that Tech Strategy is viable and new 'solutions' can be architected within the EA Principles/Guardrails and still deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas
• Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning processes to ensure that the initiatives and plans are consistent with the agreed tech strategies
• Ensuring our EA tool information is up to date and has the required breadth and depth
• Support the development of architecture tools and techniques to support others in the practice
• Embrace and support Computacenter's mission and core values.

What you have

• 5+ years' experience as a Lead or Domain Enterprise Architect
• Must possess a working history with the top OEMs in the Network & Data Security space such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Splunk, Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Fortinet, Dell etc.
• Experience creating and embedding technology strategies either within a business domain or with in a large-scale transformation program
• Legally eligible to work in the United States
• Effective communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business terminology
• A proven track record of building strong relationships with customer CISOs, security teams, and infrastructure leaders by delivering expert guidance on risk reduction, compliance, and secure infrastructure transformation.
• Ability to build trusted and respect as a 'thought leader' who can influence and when appropriate persuade technology and business leaders
• Ability to be technology neutral: unbiased towards any specific technology or vendor choice, entirely motivated by getting to 'value & outcomes'
• Ability to propose and effectively estimate proposed solution commercials
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technology skills