Role Overview
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.
Passionate About Quality
- 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.
Entrepreneurial Spirit
- 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.
Absolute Integrity
- 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 the quality and integrity.
Growth Mindset
- 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.
Additional Information
- Competitive compensation, tailored to your interests, priorities, flexibility, work‑life balance, expertise, experience, and ambitions.
