The Senior Solution Architect designs scalable cybersecurity solutions, acting as a technical advisor during pre-sales and client engagements, supporting knowledge sharing.
The Senior Solution Architect is a key technical role within NCC Group’s Sales Engineering & Field Strategy team, responsible for designing and delivering robust, scalable cybersecurity solutions across professional and managed services. This role partners closely with clients to understand their business challenges and translate them into secure, commercially viable solutions aligned with NCC Group’s capabilities.
Senior Solution Architects lead solution design for medium-to-large opportunities, ensuring technical integrity and alignment with client requirements. They act as trusted advisors during client engagements, supporting pre-sales activities and collaborating with internal teams to deliver high-quality proposals and architectures. While not a formal people manager, the role contributes to knowledge sharing and supports the development of Solution Architects and Technical Solutions Engineers through informal mentoring and guidance.
Senior Solution Architects lead solution design for medium-to-large opportunities, ensuring technical integrity and alignment with client requirements. They act as trusted advisors during client engagements, supporting pre-sales activities and collaborating with internal teams to deliver high-quality proposals and architectures. While not a formal people manager, the role contributes to knowledge sharing and supports the development of Solution Architects and Technical Solutions Engineers through informal mentoring and guidance.
This position requires strong technical expertise, commercial awareness, and excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders and contribute to NCC Group’s growth and reputation for technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and document technical solutions for client opportunities, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and feasibility.
- Provide technical consultancy during pre-sales engagements, including scope definition, approach, dependencies, and assumptions.
- Collaborate with Sales, Delivery, and Product Management teams to align solutions with client needs and NCC Group’s service portfolio.
- Support bid responses and proposals, contributing technical content and cost modelling under governance processes.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor in client meetings, presenting solutions confidently to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Maintain awareness of emerging threats, technologies, and market trends to inform solution design.
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, supporting the development of peers and junior team members.
- Represent NCC Group at client engagements and industry events as required.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Minimum Requirements
- Proven experience in designing and delivering cybersecurity solutions in a pre-sales or consulting capacity.
- Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, network architecture, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
- Solid knowledge of cybersecurity principles, threats, and mitigation strategies.
- Familiarity with penetration testing methodologies and outcomes.
- Working knowledge of at least one major framework (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, CIS Controls).
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to balance technical integrity with business objectives.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for diverse audiences.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and technical documentation tools.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent experience.
Desired Requirements
- Experience integrating cybersecurity solutions into enterprise environments.
- Understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements across sectors.
- Exposure to managed security services and operational security models.
- Experience working with multi-region or international clients.
- Knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks (e.g., GDPR).
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Financial & Investment
- 401k
- Life Assurance
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- Community & Volunteering Programmes
- Employee Referral Program
- Lifestyle & Wellness - Health Insurance contributions available
- Learning & Development
About
We assess, develop and manage cyber threats across our increasingly connected society. We advise global technology, manufacturers, financial institutions, critical national infrastructure providers, retailers and governments on the best way to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.With our knowledge, experience and global footprint, we are best placed to help businesses identify, assess, mitigate & respond to the risks they face.We are passionate about making the Internet safer and revolutionising the way in which organisations think about cyber security.Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with over 35 offices across the world, NCC Group employs more than 2,000 people and is a trusted advisor to 15,000 clients worldwide.
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