Senior Security Architect, Consulting

The Company Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024.

Cognizant Consulting At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

Role Profile The Security Architect will be a member of a small architecture team comprising application and infrastructure specialists. They will have experience and a strong foundation in the design of secure solutions on AWS Cloud and On-premises Data Centres (DCs). They will have experience in creating high-level designs (HLDs) following application and infrastructure security policies, standards and best practice. They will be able to defend design choices at technical governance forums (e.g., TDA).

Responsibilities:

• Providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; ensuring project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables.
• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and guiding transformational delivery engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels to enable consensus building and shaping technology direction.
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business.
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings.
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales.
• Contributing to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise through active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team.
• Developing, implementing and continually refining a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, including presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables.

Core skills and experience:

• Creation of high-level security architecture design (HLD).
• Security capabilities in AWS Cloud and Data Centres (DCs).
• Knowledge of network segmentation and vulnerability management.
• Security: Firewalls, Key Management, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Application Gateway (ALG).
• Technologies: WSO2, Nginx, Entrust, GardDuty, Shield.
• Knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, CCM).

Desirable skills and experience:

• AWS Certified Security Specialty.
• Java security frameworks (e.g., JCA, JAAS, JSSE).
• Security technology (e.g., ZTNA, SEIM, XDR, EDR).
• Sparx EA.

The Security Architect must be comfortable drafting documents, preparing presentations, researching IT architecture and technology topics, and providing oversight to development teams. They must have the ability to abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organise work, deliver to tight deadlines, and communicate with non-technical and technical stakeholders.

Security Clearance Please note that candidates must hold or be able to gain UK SC level Security Clearance or higher. Therefore we can only accept applications from British passport holders who meet this criteria.