Pre-Sales Enterprise Security Architect

About Cognizant
What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story! We are looking for a Pre-Sales Enterprise Security Architect to join our team.


Responsibilities
Cognizant requires an Enterprise Security Architect pre sales/advisory role for their Security Practice . The role involves engagement with clients and other internal stakeholders, carry out assessment of overall security risks, evaluate current security posture and applicable regulatory/security standards, expanding business requirements etc and accordingly contribute towards the design of enterprise security solutions covering technology and governance layers. Importantly the candidate should be able to convey our value proposition with the appropriate business/client stake holders in sufficient architectural and technical detail.
The successful candidate needs to have a track record of working with leading global security services providers, experience of working on large integrated bids and development of solutions for clients across multiple industry domains.
The role will also require working with business teams to build business case for security frameworks, technologies and security management.


Skills & Experience
15+ years of experience in Information Technology Industry
7 - 10 years of progressive information security solution design, implementation & governance experience across various industry domains
2-3 years of previous client facing advisory, business development or presales experience with large service providers (Big4 IT risk management consulting experience a plus)
Good working knowledge on security technologies covering Compute, DLP, SIEM, WAF, Firewall, Cloud Security, IAM, PKI, Application Security, SecOps etc. (advantage ->)Exposure to next gen security requirements around IOT, SAAS,PAAS
Governance Risk & Compliance level experience around standards like ISO / NIST / PCI /HIPAA etc. Exposure to GRC tools would be an advantage.
Technical aptitude and critical thinking skills while having the ability to think outside the box, demonstrated ability to solve complex information security problems, ability to observe security risks and weaknesses and provide security recommendations to respective project and delivery teams, experience of handling incidents
Ability to translate technical risk issues and communicate with business leaders and upper management
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field required
CISA, CISSP, CISM, or other relevant information security industry recognized certification preferred
AWS, Azure Architect certifications, other relevant cloud security certifications preferred



Soft Skills
Self motivated and hands on approach
Ability to work with large geographically distributed virtual teams
Be able to learn new technologies and solutions
Good solution presentation skills
Strong ability to work in a matrix based organization including dealing with partners’ relationships.
Good communication skills
Good technical writing skills
Industry thought leadership.



What you can expect
Market attractive Salary and compensation package
Unique opportunity to become part of a ‘flag ship’ success story at the forefront of technological innovation - We go through enormous growth!
Opportunity to work in a global Fortune 500 organization with strong local ambitions
An agile, international and multicultural work environment
Access to further training through our own Cognizant Academy to ensure professional development
Opportunity to work with globally recognized organizations and C level stakeholders
Work life balance – flexible working hours and 5 extra vacation days a year
A fun and invigorating place to work