Senior Security Architect

. Solution Architecture and Design

• Lead the architecture and design of large, complex and multi-technology solutions aligned to customer business and technical requirements.
• Translate business, functional and non-functional requirements into coherent end-to-end solution architectures.
• Produce and govern High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs, Solution Architecture Documents, reference architectures, architecture decision records and implementation patterns.
• Ensure solutions address security, scalability, availability, resilience, performance, manageability, interoperability and supportability.
• Define integration across cloud, infrastructure, applications, networks, security, data and operational service components.
• Assess current-state environments and develop target-state architectures, transformation approaches and technology roadmaps.
• Identify architectural risks, constraints, assumptions, dependencies and technical debt; evaluate options and articulate trade-offs.

2. Customer Consulting and Advisory

• Act as a trusted technology advisor to customer architects, engineering leaders, CIO, CTO and CISO organizations, and business stakeholders.
• Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, assessments and design reviews.
• Translate customer objectives into practical technology outcomes and communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide recommendations for modernization, transformation, optimization, risk reduction and service improvement.
• Build strong customer relationships and positively influence strategic technology decisions.

3. Pre-Sales and Solution Development

• Provide architectural leadership for RFI, RFP and RFQ responses, bids and strategic opportunities.
• Support sales and account teams throughout opportunity qualification and solution development.
• Develop solution architectures, technical proposals, Statements of Work, assumptions, dependencies and solution narratives.
• Produce effort estimates, Bills of Materials, licensing assumptions and technical inputs to commercial models.
• Lead customer presentations, solution workshops, demonstrations and technical defence sessions.
• Ensure proposed solutions are technically achievable, operationally supportable and commercially viable.

4. Technical and Delivery Governance

• Serve as design authority throughout the solution lifecycle and govern implementation against the approved architecture.
• Conduct design assurance and technical reviews at defined architecture and delivery gates.
• Manage architecture decisions, technical risks, exceptions, constraints and dependencies.
• Support delivery teams in resolving complex architecture and integration issues.
• Define solution acceptance criteria and contribute to testing, transition and operational readiness.
• Maintain appropriate documentation, traceability and architecture governance.

5. Technology Leadership

The successful candidate should demonstrate sound architecture knowledge across several of the following domains:

Domain

Expected capability

Cloud

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud Platform

Infrastructure

Compute, storage, virtualization, backup and platform services

Networking

Enterprise networking, SD-WAN, DNS/DHCP, load balancing and connectivity

Security

Zero Trust, identity and access management, endpoint, network and cloud security

Applications

Application modernization, APIs, middleware and integration architecture

Data

Data platforms, integration, governance and cloud data services

Automation

Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, CI/CD and orchestration

Operations

ITSM, monitoring, observability, service management and operational readiness

Emerging technology

AI, generative AI, automation and modern digital platforms

6. Security by Design

• Embed security into the architecture from initial design rather than treating it as a downstream activity.
• Align solutions with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements and customer policies.
• Incorporate identity, privileged access, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, network segmentation and data protection controls.
• Collaborate with specialist cybersecurity architects where deeper domain expertise is required.
• Apply appropriate risk assessment and threat-modelling techniques for critical solutions.

7. Architecture Leadership and Mentoring

• Provide technical direction to solution architects, domain architects, consultants and engineers.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams contributing to complex solutions and review their architecture deliverables.
• Mentor junior and intermediate architects and promote consistent architecture practices.
• Support the development of architecture capability, communities of practice and technical standards.

8. Innovation and Reusable Intellectual Property

• Develop reusable reference architectures, patterns, templates, blueprints and accelerators.
• Contribute lessons learned and delivery experience to Fujitsu knowledge repositories.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their applicability to customer requirements.
• Participate in architecture communities, technology forums and thought-leadership activities.
• Collaborate with strategic technology partners to enhance Fujitsu solution offerings.

Required Experience

• 15+ years of relevant IT experience, including approximately 8+ years in solution, technical or enterprise architecture.
• Proven experience architecting large-scale enterprise technology solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Demonstrated customer-facing consulting, workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management experience.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles, integration patterns and non-functional requirements.
• Experience producing HLDs, LLDs, architecture documents, technical proposals and implementation roadmaps.
• Previous involvement in RFPs, proposals, solution estimation and pre-sales activities.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams.
• Ability to evaluate solutions from business, technical, security, risk, operational and commercial perspectives.

Professional Competencies

• Architecture leadership: ownership of complex end-to-end architecture and design decisions.
• Customer focus: ability to understand desired business outcomes rather than proposing technology in isolation.
• Commercial awareness: understanding of solution cost, effort, risk and architectural trade-offs.
• Communication: excellent written, verbal, workshop-facilitation and presentation skills.
• Problem solving: a structured, evidence-based approach to complex business and technical challenges.
• Stakeholder management: confidence working with customer executives, architects, vendors and delivery teams.
• Collaboration and leadership: ability to influence geographically distributed and multidisciplinary teams without relying solely on formal authority.

Qualifications and Certifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• A master's degree or postgraduate business or technology qualification is advantageous.

Preferred Certifications

Candidates are not expected to hold every certification. Relevant credentials may include:

• CISSP and/or CCSP
• TOGAF
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• ITIL
• Relevant technology or domain certifications aligned to the candidate's specialization.

Key Success Measures

• Quality, completeness and approval of architecture deliverables and design assurance.
• Customer satisfaction, stakeholder confidence and demonstrable influence on outcomes.
• Successful delivery against agreed scope, quality, cost and timelines.
• Technical contribution to proposals, competitive wins and business growth.
• Effective identification and management of architecture and delivery risk.
• Adoption of reusable architecture patterns and accelerators.
• Contribution to architecture communities, knowledge sharing and colleague development.