Senior Security Technical Pre Sales Architect, Johannesburg

The Senior Security Technical Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for designing robust security architectures for our systems, applications, and infrastructure. collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that technology solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Designs and develops complex and comprehensive security architectures for our systems, applications, and infrastructure, considering both current and future needs.

·        Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client.

·        Collaborates with stakeholders, including developers, engineers, and project managers, to integrate security requirements into the system design and development lifecycle.

·        Provide pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current security capabilities.

·        Provides guidance and expertise in secure coding practices, network security, identity and access management, data protection, and other security domains.

·        Evaluates and selects security technologies, tools, and frameworks to support our security architecture

·        Ensures technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives

·        Defines and applies security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

·        Leads incident response activities, including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery, in coordination with the incident response team.

·        Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.

·        Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFx responses.

·        Assists with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.

·        Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.

·        Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

·        On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.