Solution Architect / Designer
HybridSheffield, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Develop and maintain comprehensive solution designs for quantum-safe cybersecurity initiatives, aligning them with business requirements and technical standards. Document key design decisions, deviations, and technical risks while ensuring artifacts undergo governance and peer review. Lead presentations at design authorities to engage senior stakeholders and provide technical thought leadership as a subject matter expert in post-quantum cryptography and migration strategies. Manage and escalate technical risks with clear remediation plans, collaborating across IT to integrate quantum-safe practices while maintaining standard approaches. This six-month contingent engagement with Deloitte Operations requires a senior architect with enterprise-scale expertise in data, integration, and platform architecture.
Required Qualifications
- Senior Solutions or Security Architect background with enterprise-scale solution design expertise
- Strong skills in data, integration, platform architecture, and scalable data-processing pipelines
- Understanding of security, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery patterns
- Ability to translate programme objectives into actionable reference architectures
- Bachelor's or Master's in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent cybersecurity certification
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and architecture visualization tools (BizzDesign, Archi, UML)
Desired Qualifications
- Enterprise cybersecurity architecture, including encryption, PKI, cryptographic tooling
- Experience with post-quantum cryptography, quantum-safe migration, and cryptographic agility
- Broad security domain knowledge to support future initiatives
- Deep knowledge in cryptography, data security, identity & access management, privileged access management
- Experience communicating effectively with both security and non-security technical stakeholders
- Background in large-scale IT transformation programmes
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