At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative security solutions and mentor junior architects in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join Microsoft, a leader in tech innovation and teamwork.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, remote work options, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Travel 20-30% and work with top-tier partners in a collaborative setting.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on global security missions with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in security architecture and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 £ per year.
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will operate as the senior technical authority partnering with Account Executives (AEs), Technical Account Managers (TAMs), and strategic partners across the Enterprise segment to drive regional and corporate growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to executive and senior technical stakeholders, shaping how customers and partners design, adopt, and scale solutions on the Qualys platform across asset and vulnerability management, patch management, threat detection and response, compliance, and cloud/application security.
- Lead discovery at the executive level to uncover, prioritise, and translate complex customer security and compliance requirements into end-to-end Qualys and partner-integrated solution architectures.
- Define solution patterns, adoption roadmaps, and long-term architectural strategy.
- Build and steward executive-level trusted relationships with technical and security decision-makers across customers and partners.
- Lead partner technical enablement at a programme level — designing training curricula, solution guidance, joint architecture frameworks, and operational best practices.
- Drive the development of partner-delivered and managed security service offerings, acting as the senior technical architect for these initiatives.
- Author authoritative technical enablement content (solution guides, white papers, blogs, workshops), setting the bar for internal and partner sales enablement.
- Proactively identify systemic technical challenges across the field and lead the development of scalable enablement assets, automation frameworks, and best practices adopted org-wide.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior Solutions Architects and TAMs.
- Travel expectation 20–30%.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in pre-sales, sales engineering, solution architecture, partner engineering, or customer-facing security architecture roles, including demonstrated experience leading the most complex, strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated ownership of a vulnerability or risk programme at scale in a large enterprise environment.
- Expert-level, hands-on command across multiple domains: asset management, vulnerability management, patching, policy/compliance, cloud security, application security, and threat detection/response.
- Proven ability to architect complex, end-to-end security solutions spanning identification through remediation and recovery, independently and at executive level.
- Strong command of common security/compliance frameworks and how to apply them strategically.
- Deep working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
- Executive-level communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence C-level and senior technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI, automation, scripting, or workflow optimisation technologies to drive measurable operational efficiency and improved customer/partner outcomes.
- Equivalent senior-level security platform experience welcomed.
- Demonstrated history of influencing product direction through customer, partner, and field feedback at a strategic level.
- Experience architecting or leading managed security services, integrations, or joint solution architectures from concept to delivery.
- Deep familiarity with DevSecOps workflows, cloud-native security, and mature security operations practices.
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Full time
Microsoft Security - Senior Solution Architect employer: Qualys
Join a forward-thinking company that champions innovation and collaboration, making it an exceptional employer for a Security Solution Architect. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have access to extensive training and development opportunities while working remotely from the UK. Our inclusive work culture fosters teamwork and creativity, allowing you to contribute to meaningful projects that support vital missions worldwide.
