Senior Solutions Architect (031lw) – Information Security – remote (+ travel) Contract

Our client is a well-established business that has been successful in the High Assurance cyber security market since 1992. Their secure information exchange solutions have been deployed by more than twenty-five different nations around the globe, in Government, Defence, Law Enforcement & Critical National Infrastructure.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY, WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EX MILITARY.

Our client’s success in the security and defence niche has been built on their ability to build great technology and service solutions; but also, being as good as the very best as an organisation.

This is an opportunity to work within a continuous growth, dynamic team environment, where you will have the opportunity to thrive, work autonomously, continuously learn, be challenged & importantly acknowledged & rewarded for your contributions.

Main Purpose of Job

The primary role of the Senior Solutions Architect is to provide security technology consulting services to customers in defence, security, and commercial sectors and may be engaged in a broad range of activities from helping a customer define and develop a solution to an immediate need to considering the strategic long-term exploitation of an emerging technology.

Information Security/IT Security aspects are key such as information flow, security requirements and implementation – undertaking technical pre-sale activity with customers & understanding their requirements, capturing those & turning into solutions. For Service Leavers, in addition to your incredible transferrable military skills, you will also be able to demonstrate ‘wider’ experience / an ‘elevated’ understanding (or awareness of) in this respect.

You will be part of the Service Team which is split into 2 functional lanes. 1 – Delivery (security delivery architecture and design) means as a solution architect , you will have the gravitas, experience & skills to sit with client, extract requirements and business needs and convert into a solution architecture and 2 – Information Security Advisory & Assurance.

Depending on the engagement, the Solutions Architect may work alone or as part of a larger team. When working as part of a team, will take a leading role, shaping the solution and providing a primary contact point with the customer. Will ensure customer’s needs are clearly articulated to the team as a whole and will take responsibility for smooth delivery of the project.

Whilst primarily concerned with project delivery the Solutions Architect will have a secondary role supporting business development and sales providing technical guidance into sales activity both for sales led by our client and working with partners or system integrators as part of a consortium.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the programme technical task lead in new and existing work to deliver high quality customer solutions.
• Use business, industry, and technical knowledge to elicit customer business requirements, and define technical requirements.
• Design and document solutions architectures
• Maintain a good working knowledge of client’s intellectual property and product portfolio in order to manage the design and development of solutions to customer’s business problems
• Work with accreditors to understand their concerns and develop suitable architectures and strategies to address these within the scope of a project.
• Deliver high quality input into bids and proposals and interface with the implementation / project teams, articulating the customer requirement and proposed solution to ensure a smooth transition from sales to delivery.
• Evangelise our clients’ services, products, technologies, and expertise externally, and develop networking relationships with customers and industry contacts.
• Contribute market intelligence to shape product features required to maintain market worthiness of products including:
• Customer/business requirements and feedback on existing products.
• New technical developments/approaches within markets.
• Identifying relevant standards and evaluations.
• Work with Product Leads to feedback on issues with current products and propositions and provide input around new products and services.
• Contribute to the sales process providing technical leadership on pre-sales activity, and bids.
• Contribute to the production of sales and marketing collateral including technical white papers describing the product capabilities, deployments and discussing the implications of emerging technologies.

Skills

• Experience in programme technical leadership.
• Formal systems architecture and modelling experience.
• Understanding and working knowledge of the defence / military arena.
• Knowledge of cloud-based systems.
• Awareness of project and programme management techniques and tools.
• Awareness of NCSC Guidance and Advice and its application.
• Awareness of MOD / NATO standards, approaches, and context.
• Either holding UK Security Clearance or willingness to undergo UK Security Clearances is key to this role.

Desirable

• Technical Lead of innovation and MoD research projects, for example SERAPIS / ITA.
• Understanding of commercial markets.
• TOGAF® Certified.
• Awareness of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and associated NIST publications.

If you are interested in applying, please send a copy of your CV with a note outlining why this would be the ideal opportunity for you, by email to liz@ex-mil.co.uk

https://www.ex-mil.co.uk/vacancies/7617/solution-architect-information-security-defence

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.