Title: Senior Security Lead Architect / SME
Location: USA-OH: OHIO-CINCINNATI
Job Number: 13003LN
CSC, one of the world's most innovative and successful IT services firms, is looking for candidates to help grow our talented consulting team. Specifically, we are seeking a Senior Security Lead Architect/SME that can work with clients to architect, design and deliver solutions that meet their specific business objectives. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned architect/consultant with broad technical skills and experience Cloud Security consulting, Data loss prevention and Network Security .
As a Lead Architect, you are responsible for ensuring that the technical solution solves the business problem. As a result, you need to possess a broad range of business and technical expertise. You must be able to translate business requirements into technical requirements and assist other team members in designing and implementing the solution.
You will leverage and grow your knowledge and skills in a fast-paced, rewarding environment - working side-by-side with our team of world class consultants. In addition to a rewarding work environment, CSC offers an outstanding set of benefits.
Responsibilities include:
* Help manage and develop our new and growing Security Consulting team
* Develop and implement holistic solution architectures for homogenous problem domains from both a business and technical perspective.
* Perform solution definition of a problem domain.
* Design overall system and solution architecture, system integration, and implementation strategy.
* Deliver an integrated solution that meets the needs of the client within the constraints of the contract.
* Capture both functional and non-functional (i.e. life cycle cost, performance, and/or flexibility) business requirements on how the system should work over time.
* Lead in the analysis, design, and implementation planning of the technical/business solution from pre-sale through delivery.
* Assist in establishing preliminary project/program development schedule.
* Generate conceptual/logical architectures, system documents, testing analyses, test plans, and risk assessments.
Key contribution criteria:
* Anticipates clients needs, investigates the underlying causes and identifies short and long term solutions
* Anticipates internal/external business issues and developments in own discipline
* Uses knowledge to focus work and drive improvements
* Manages costs and profitability for a work area and/or large projects across disciplines
* Anticipates patterns and links; looks beyond the immediate problem to the wider implications
* Generates new and innovative solutions to complex problems
* Manages own time and that of others; develops plans for work activities in own area over the medium/long term
* Supports strategic planning activities
* Explains/presents highly complex ideas
* Anticipates potential objections and prepares the case accordingly
* Influences others through leadership and inspiration
* Acts as a facilitator and mentor and motivates cross functional and virtual teams
* Creates formal networks internally and externally
You will leverage and grow your knowledge and skills in a fast-paced, rewarding environment - working side-by-side with our team of world class consultants. In addition to a rewarding work environment, CSC offers an outstanding set of benefits.
We are looking for individuals who:
* Strive for excellence in everything they do
* Bring a partnering approach to their job
* Focus on the innovative use of technology to overcome business challenges
* Seek to work in a environment that respects individual ideas and diversity
The Company: CSC is one of the world's leading providers of information technology services, helping organizations achieve business results through the effective use of technology. Since its formation in 1959, CSC has earned a customer-centric reputation for developing and managing solutions specifically tailored to each client's needs. No other company offers the same range of professional services and global reach as CSC does in areas such as business and technology strategies, management consulting, information systems consulting and integration, application software, and IT and business process outsourcing.
CSC is a leading provider of management and information technology services to commercial and government markets in over 90 countries. Our consulting portfolio spans the full life cycle - from strategy and business process design to technology services, systems integration, application outsourcing and hosting. Our clients benefit from the breadth and depth of our global expertise, but more importantly, CSC goes to market using a team of local experts, creating a relaxed, professional-casual atmosphere, while maintaining a family and people-oriented culture.
Are we right for you? CSC offers a variety of challenging opportunities that will draw on your talents while enabling you to grow your intellectual capital in a supportive environment. Learning experiences are offered as a blend of relevant work assignments, training, tools, mentoring and other growth opportunities. We offer many avenues to mastering your chosen profession, while giving you everyday exposure to brilliance in business, technology and people. As one employee puts it "you have the freedom to explore different technologies, the mobility to move from one role to another (or one country to another), and the possibilities of learning from 98,000 colleagues worldwide - without changing employer or losing benefits."
Career Advancement: Your career belongs to you. At CSC, we recognize that you are in control of identifying and achieving your career goals. CSC enables you to take the lead through our formal development planning process. We will help you create a plan for enhancing your skills and experience by providing information, tools, and people that will support your career planning efforts. We have identified over 60 standard roles that exist across CSC Consulting, as well as the corresponding skills needed to succeed in those roles. You can use this information to identify your next assignment or an entire career path anywhere in the U.S. or potentially the world. A career at CSC can be as targeted or eclectic as you are.
Expectation for Travel: For the Global Business Solutions Division of CSC, all roles require a commitment to 100% travel. This doesn't mean that a person will always be traveling for assignments, but new Consultants joining the CSC team need to understand that they could be assigned to a travel role. The staffing process focuses on assigning people to local roles as a first priority, however, if a Consultant is available and has the right skills for an assignment for another CSC office across the United States, the Consultant may be staffed into that travel assignment. When this happens, they travel to the project location at the start of the week, return at the end of the work week and are home during the weekends.
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Essential Job Functions
- Uses deliverables from vision and strategy phase to develop conceptual technical models (Technical).
- Creates best practice technical architecture models utilizing knowledge of industry and technical trends (Technical).
- Identifies and evaluates technical architecture to ensure solutions satisfy business requirements and performance goals (Technical).
- Uses Catalyst phases, activities and tasks as a basis for developing estimates and team plans (Methodology).
- Leads a team of 6-10 resources (company, client and third-party resources) in area of expertise to conclusion of a project phase (Management).
- Interprets business requirements and translates them into technical requirements (Business).
- Manages client expectations and balances the needs of the company and client to ensure satisfaction for both (Relationship Management).
- Influences decisions and project direction at the executive level (Relationship Management).
- Identifies sales leads through established networks (Leverage).
- Develops proposal strategies and win themes; participates in sales calls (Leverage).
- Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel (Leadership).
- Presents to large sized groups of key decision makers at the executive level; develops and communicates vision and purpose, encourages contribution and support from others. Contributes to proposal orals and division and company-wide events (Communication).
Qualifications:
Required Skills and Experience
* 10-15 years experience, with at least 6-8 years architecture experience
* At least 4 years Cloud Consulting experience
* At least 5 years Consulting experience
* Strong delivery skills
* CCSK certification
* Experience with VCE VBlocks, Catbird, TrendMircro, Centrify, VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack and HyTrust
* Understanding of Virtual Application (cross-cloud identity management, web application firewall, data loss protection, data access auditing); Virtual Server (host firewall and IDS, Server AV, file integrity monitoring, patch management); Virtual Network (layer 3 routing, network firewall, network IDS, customer-specific configurations); Cloud Infrastructure (network firewall, network IDS, Hypervisor auditing, administrator access auditing)
* Experience with proposals and pre-sales support, in addition to hands-on architecture and development experience.
* Experience developing and writing a Statement of Work
* Strong leadership skills
* Excellent communication skills, both written and presentation skills
* At least 5 years experience of heavy travel (over 50%)
* Ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance if needed
Knowledge
* Industry - multiple industries (e.g. Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare)
* Technology - broad experience with current technologies (e.g. Microsoft, Java, Cloud computing, SOA, etc.)
* Methodology - understanding and experience applying industry methodologies
* Domain-specific - multiple years and projects experience across DAT (data, application, technology) and POL (process, organization, location) domains
Experience
* Types of Projects - experience across broad spectrum of project requirements and solutions (e.g. ERP, custom development, legacy transformation)
* Scope of Projects - experience on large-scale projects (e.g. multiple year, large enterprises, large solution team)
* Complexity of Projects - experience leading complex projects (e.g. new solution, multiple location solution, national/international implementation, highly political environment)
* Domains of Change covered - DAT (data, application, technology) and POL (process, organization, location) domains
* Areas of Focus (strategy, business pursuit, etc.)
* Degree of risk
* Level of visibility/relationships (sphere of influence)
Key Leadership/Non-Technical Skills
* Dealing with Ambiguity - Makes accurate decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines
* Business Acumen - Comprehensive industry knowledge, IT know-how or work experience
* Comfort around higher management
* Creativity
* Customer Focus - Rapidly establishes credibility with the client, creating and maintaining a networking relationship
* Decision Quality
* Intellectual Horsepower
* Interpersonal Savvy
* Organizational Agility
* Problem Solving
* Strategic Agility
* Political Savvy
* Strategic Agility
* Managing Vision and Purpose
Basic Qualifications
Job: Technical Consulting
