OT Cybersecurity Solution Architect | SC Cleared in Birmingham

Must hold UK SC or have 5 year address history and be able to achieve this. The OT Cybersecurity Solution Architect designs and delivers robust, scalable, and secure cybersecurity solutions that align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and the organisation’s risk appetite. Acting as a bridge between business needs and technical implementation, this role ensures security is embedded across all stages of solution delivery. With a deep understanding of the operational technology security field, this architect is able to design and execute solutions for industrial clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business units, project managers, and senior leadership to translate business goals into solutions.
• Present solutions, deliverables and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support and educate business development representatives.
• Advise on procurement and vendor evaluation for security technologies.
• Serve as technical lead on complex security projects, partnering with infrastructure, development, and operations teams.
• Guide and consult on security decisions across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and networks.
• Design scalable, innovative and creative security solutions for complex problems.
• Apply expertise in security governance frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, and COBIT) to provide implementation consultancy, ensuring frameworks are effectively operationalised into business processes and technology solutions.
• Provide assurance on correct implementation of security architectures.
• Mentor junior architects and cybersecurity analysts.
• Promote security by design principles across development and infrastructure teams.
• Deliver knowledge-sharing sessions and upskilling initiatives.
• Identify unspoken needs in stakeholder engagements and translate them into tangible solutions.
• Leverage extensive cybersecurity and industry-specific knowledge to anticipate emerging challenges within target sectors, designing adaptive, scalable, and forward-looking security architectures that proactively address common threat patterns and regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with regulatory standards (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, UK Cyber Essentials Plus, NIS2, DORA, RED, CRA).
• Perform threat modelling, risk assessments and security assessments.
• Provide technical input for audits and compliance initiatives.
• Represent the cybersecurity team towards clients with quality and integrity.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, cyber threats, and evolving security standards - anticipate associated market needs and make meaningful suggestions on future directions.
• Drive innovation in tools and techniques and recommend enhancements to the status-quo.
• Build knowledge repositories to support future solutions.
• Develop, curate, and share sector-specific security insights, fostering cross-industry knowledge exchange to strengthen organisational readiness and inform future solution strategies across priority markets.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Security Architect or similar role.
• Background in operational technology security, with extensive experience testing and assessing OT networks and equipment.
• Broad expertise in security fields such as offensive security, operational technology security, embedded security, cloud security, security regulations and certifications.
• Knowledge of security standards and frameworks FIPS, NIST, ISO, IEC.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Relevant national security clearance if applicable.

Competitive compensation, tailored to your interests, priorities, flexibility, work-life balance, expertise, experience, and ambitions.