Job Description
Job Title:  CTO - Security Architect
City:  Bengaluru, Pune
State/Province:  Karnataka, Maharashtra
Posting Start Date:  8/12/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com. 
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Job Description

Role Purpose

10-14 years overall experience; at least 5-7 years in cybersecurity, cryptography, PKI, cloud security, security architecture, or applied cryptographic engineering.

Lead quantum-safe architecture, risk analysis, hybrid cryptography design and migration planning across applications, infrastructure, cloud, PKI, keys and certificates.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Lead crypto discovery strategy across applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, network protocols, certificates, keys and signing workflows.
  • Define quantum-risk assessment method covering RSA, ECC, TLS, SSH, IPsec, code signing, PKI, HSM/KMS, data confidentiality and integrity exposure.
  • Design crypto-agility target architecture, hybrid cryptography strategy and reference migration patterns.
  • Review discovery findings and convert them into prioritized remediation roadmaps.
  • Lead client technical workshops with security architecture, CISO, infrastructure, application and enterprise architecture teams.
  • Guide pilot scope selection and validate whether migration designs are implementable and aligned to standards.
  • Mentor consultants and engineering specialists on PQC, cryptographic risk and client delivery methods.

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Required Skills

  • Strong understanding of RSA, ECC, PKI, X.509, TLS/SSL, SSH, IPsec, digital signatures, certificate lifecycle, HSM and KMS concepts.
  • Hands-on familiarity with security architecture, threat modeling, cloud security and enterprise cryptographic controls.
  • Working knowledge of NIST PQC standards, ML-KEM/Kyber, ML-DSA/Dilithium, SLH-DSA/SPHINCS+ and hybrid migration patterns.
  • Ability to create reference architectures, migration roadmaps, risk scoring models and executive-ready technical narratives.

Strong stakeholder management and consulting communication skills

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Preferred / Advantageous Skills

  • Exposure to BFS security environments, regulated workloads, payment systems, identity platforms or high-value data protection programs.
  • Experience with OpenSSL, liboqs, PQClean, Bouncy Castle, PKCS#11, cloud KMS/HSM platforms or cryptographic tooling.
  • Familiarity with NIST, FIPS, ETSI, CNSA 2.0 and sector-specific regulatory expectations.

Expected Deliverables / Outputs

  • Quantum-risk assessment approach
  • Crypto-agility reference architecture
  • Hybrid crypto design patterns
  • Prioritized migration roadmap
  • Client workshop outputs and architecture assurance notes

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