Job Description

Job Summary – Looking for a highly skilled and experienced Cyber Security Architect to manage and oversee our organization’s security architecture. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cyber security, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to design and implement robust security solutions. Responsible for the design, architect and risk assessment of a broad range of Cyber security technologies in On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid environment.  Should have minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in handling various security solutions covering Identity and access management, Network Security, Cloud Security, Data Security, Application security & Endpoint security domains.

• Responsible for Design, build and program governance of enterprise-class security systems
• Consulting and engineering in the development and design of security best practices and implementation of solid security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements
• Create and maintain comprehensive reference architectures that serve as blueprints for the organization’s security infrastructure
• Develop and implement AI-driven security solutions to identify and mitigate potential cyber threats in real-time
• Develop and enforce security standards, frameworks, Standard operating procedures for overall business and technology strategy that include all legal, physical and technical controls involved in organization’s risk management ; Eg NIST, CIS etc
• Expertise across variety of security products including Next Generation firewalls, SDWAN, Zero trust , SASE, Data security & protection, Cloud security solutions
• Understanding on Security considerations of cloud computing, which include data breaches, broken authentication, hacking, account hijacking, malicious insiders, third parties, APTs, data loss and DoS attacks
• Good working knowledge on Identity and access management (IAM) and best practices.
• Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization
• Prepare comprehensive reports including assessment-based findings and propositions for further system security enhancement
• Maintains security by monitoring and ensuring compliance to standards, policies, and procedures; developing and conducting training programs
• Collaborate with IT and other departments to ensure security measures are integrated into all aspects of the organization’s operations
• Define the security control metrics for evaluating the efficiency of existing controls
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
• Sound knowledge on cloud technologies like SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, experience in native and third party controls in AWS, GCP, OCI and Azure Cloud stack
• Liaising with OEMs to get best practices and optimize security controls accordingly
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends, technologies, and regulatory requirements
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior security team members
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, CISM etc. would be an added advantage
• Exceptional communication skills with diverse audiences. Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce security measures

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Do

• Develop architectural application for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals
  • Creates enterprise wide business/ domain architecture deliverables (enabling, diagnostic and actionable) focused on the target audience and its issues and opportunities
  • Look for opportunities to use high-level business and operating models (business capability and value chain), combined with or relating to business, people, information, technology and solutions.
  • Contributes to the Target Architecture, by developing and maintaining the technology roadmap for area of expertise and ensuring that roadmap remains aligned to the Business Strategy
  • Recognizing innovative use of technology for increasing performance measures
  • Works with other IS and business stakeholders to drive the development and adoption of the target architecture for own domain
  • Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps, in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
  • Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions that meet requirements
  • Prove the feasibility of a design; and can ultimately be implemented and supported in the Production environment
  • Oversee product/ platform engineering, protocol map development, virtualization as per the business solution requirements
  • Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
  • Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies, in conjunction with team and Product Owners

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• Partners with IT and line of business functional groups to communicate and clarify business needs, contributes to the development of long-range system plans, and ensures that IT products, services and processes are aligned with line of business needs.
• Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes
• Provides technology consulting to solution architects, junior staff members, and others who are using or modifying multiple domain technologies within a solution, insuring the technology operates coherently to meet overall needs
• Interaction with EA, OEMs, Technical leads for defining business solutions
• Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
• Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
  • Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of all the business/ domain requirements including systems, shared infrastructure services in order to better match business outcome objectives
  • Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution for the big/small data 
  • Provide technical leadership to the implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
  • Define and understand current issues and problems and identify improvements
  • Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem keeping consistency throughout
  • Understand the root cause problem in integrating business and product units 
  • Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view 
  • Collaborating with sales and delivery leadership teams to identify future needs and requirements 
  • Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

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• Understanding enterprise requirements and provide solutions for technical ecosystem
  • Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches. 
  • Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and dev-ops principles to reduce manual part
  • Responsible for successfully applying the technology in their domain to solve business problems in a supportable, cost effective, way
  • Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, analyze the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture
  • Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives
  • Provide platform to create standardize tools, uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance
  • Seamless integration and advising of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development
  • Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions and provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

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• Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks
  • Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
  • Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating business strategy to execution
  • Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
  • Bring value in terms of quality in development activities by leveraging cloud based and scalable infrastructure
  • Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
  • Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
  • Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
  • Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
  • Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
  • Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework. 
  • Ensure solutions developed across organization are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits). 
  • Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
  • Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor