OT Cybersecurity Solution Architect - SC Cleared
Role details
Job location
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Job description
Total Commitment
- 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
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Serve as technical lead on complex security projects, partnering with infrastructure, development, and operations teams.
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Guide and consult on security decisions across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and networks. *Design scalable, innovative and creative security solutions for complex problems.
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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.
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Provide assurance on correct implementation of security architectures. Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Mentor junior architects and cybersecurity analysts.
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Promote security by design principles across development and infrastructure teams.
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Deliver knowledge-sharing sessions and upskilling initiatives.
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Identify unspoken needs in stakeholder engagements and translate them into tangible solutions.
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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
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Familiarity with regulatory standards (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, UK Cyber Essentials Plus, NIS2, DORA, RED, CRA).
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Perform threat modelling, risk assessments and security assessments.
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Provide technical input for audits and compliance initiatives.
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Represent the cybersecurity team towards clients with the quality and integrity. Growth Mindset
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Stay current with emerging technologies, cyber threats, and evolving security standards - anticipate associated market needs and make meaningful suggestions on future directions.
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Drive innovation in tools and techniques and recommend enhancements to the status-quo.
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Build knowledge repositories to support future solutions.
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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.
Requirements
- 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.