Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NTT DATA is a global leader in business and technology services, renowned for its commitment to innovation and client success. The Senior Security Solutions Architect will consult with clients to develop security-focused strategies and architectural solutions, ensuring alignment with modern security frameworks and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Contributes to the development of complex security-centric solution architectures across business, infrastructure, application, and cloud environments
- Identifies and evaluates alternative security architectures and analyzes trade-offs in risk reduction, cost, performance, and scalability
- Produces specifications for cloud or on‑premises components with an emphasis on security controls, identity and access management, encryption standards, network segmentation, and compliance requirements
- Designs components using modelling techniques that incorporate security‑by‑design principles, Zero Trust concepts, and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001)
- Creates multiple design views for stakeholder concerns, including non‑functional security requirements, and develops security proof‑of‑concepts (POCs)
- Supports change programs with technical planning aligned to enterprise security architecture standards and regulatory requirements
- Ensures solutions meet data protection and cybersecurity obligations (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI‑DSS, SOC 2)
- Leads understanding of client security requirements, gathers and analyzes threat/risk data, and provides expert remediation guidance
- Advises clients on security modernization, cloud security, secure application design, and emerging cybersecurity practices
- Recommends new security services and contributes to security go‑to‑market offerings
- Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced architects and engineers
- Design and deliver secure architectures for AI-driven and agentic systems (LLMs, RAG, autonomous agents), addressing emerging risks such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and model/data leakage
- Define and implement security controls across the AI lifecycle (data, model, inference, orchestration), embedding governance, identity, and policy into LLMOps/MLOps pipelines
- Advise clients on securing human-to-agent and agent-to-agent interactions, applying zero trust principles and ensuring auditability, compliance, and safe autonomous behavior in production environments
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Advanced hands‑on experience designing, implementing, integrating, and troubleshooting solutions from: Cisco (Firepower, ASA, ISE, Umbrella, SecureX, VPN solutions), Palo Alto Networks (NGFW, Panorama, GlobalProtect, Prisma Access/Cloud), Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, SD‑WAN), Check Point (Quantum Security Gateway, Management Server, CloudGuard, Infinity)
- Experience with secure network design, segmentation, threat prevention, IPS/IDS, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection
- Experience integrating logging, monitoring, and SIEM/SOAR systems
- Experience with secure remote access, VPN architecture, and Zero Trust design
- Experience integrating solutions into hybrid/multi‑cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience in client‑facing security consulting, including requirements gathering and risk analysis
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver security‑focused technical solutions for enterprise clients
- Advanced knowledge of security architecture, IAM, PAM, endpoint protection, cloud security, network security, and threat modelling
- Strong understanding of multi‑vendor security technologies and security operations tooling (SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex security concepts clearly
- Ability to design and leverage security reference architectures and stay current on evolving threats
- Strong collaboration skills with sales, product, delivery, engineering, and security operations teams
- Advanced analytical and risk‑assessment skills
- Strongly preferred certifications: Cisco: (CCNP Security, CCIE Security, CyberOps) and/or Palo Alto Networks: (PCNSA, PCNSE) and/or Fortinet: (NSE4–NSE7 (especially NSE5–NSE7)) and /or Check Point: (CCSA, CCSE, CCSM)
- Additional cybersecurity certifications beneficial but secondary to vendor expertise
- SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous
- Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF or SABSA beneficial
- Experience working in Agile or DevSecOps environments preferred
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