Senior Solutions Architect

Your day at NTT DATA
As a Senior Solutions Architect at NTT DATA, you will play an essential role in collaborating with clients and internal teams to create advanced, transformational designs and architectural visions for complex solutions. Your expertise will drive the development of multi-technology consulting services that span application software, infrastructure, and related technology components.

You will contribute to complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas while evaluating alternative architectures for cost, performance, and scalability. By developing detailed specifications for cloud-based or on-premises components, you will ensure robust, cutting-edge solutions that meet our clients' unique needs.

Your hands-on role will involve preparing technical plans and designs that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards, remaining agile to adapt to changing project requirements. You will be accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting DATA, delivering thorough analysis, and providing effective problem resolution.

Keeping ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, you will produce insightful reports and technology roadmaps, sharing your knowledge with internal teams and clients alike. By creating multiple design views, you will address both functional and non-functional requirements, offering innovative solutions with proof-of-concept (POC) implementations. You will also mentor and guide less experienced colleagues, contributing to our collaborative culture.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Client advisory and Solution shaping

• Lead Security-domain discovery and workshops to establish remediation processes, product families, tooling dependencies, control points, baselines and readiness gaps.

• Shape the target operating model and solution during pre-sales, and remain the domain authority through Build, production proving and run.
• Engage executive and technical stakeholders to connect security outcomes, operational constraints and transformation priorities.

2) Agentic Design & Domain Engineering

• Define remediation logic, execution patterns, MOP/runbook requirements, target versions, approval gates, maintenance windows, CAB requirements, validation criteria, rollback and exception handling.

• Guide AI and platform teams on agents for vulnerability intelligence, asset correlation, risk assessment, engineering recommendations, planning, change orchestration, remediation, validation, rollback and closure.
• Translate Network Security knowledge into agent inputs, decision logic, approved tool actions, guardrails, HITL points and validation criteria.

3) Safety, Proving & Run

• Define HITL, least privilege, PAM, allowlists, guardrails, kill-switch, safe-stop, reactivation and audit requirements.

• Lead security product-family proving across positive, negative and failure scenarios, including pre/post checks and rollback, and recommend product-family readiness for enterprise scale.
• Review failures, overrides, agent accuracy, new OEM releases, versions and policy changes; guide re-certification and continuous improvement of the digital workforce.

4) OEM Ecosystem, Productization & Thought Leadership

• Lead technical engagement with Cisco Security, Palo Alto, F5, Check Point, Zscaler and relevant ecosystem partners on APIs, automation capabilities, lifecycle roadmaps and accelerator opportunities.

• Create reusable security-domain accelerators, runbooks, validation packs, product-family templates and agent policies.
• Develop NTT DATA's point of view on Agentic Network Security Operations and help shape new offers beyond patching.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

Domain & Technical

• Strong knowledge of Network Security operations, remediation lifecycle, security automation, MOP/runbooks, change controls, validation, rollback and agentic AI concepts.

Advisory, Collaboration & Product Mindset

• Translates technical complexity into business outcomes and works effectively across clients, OEMs, AI/platform engineering, Network Engineering and operations in a matrix environment.

Leadership and Influence

• Leads through expertise and influence, demonstrates executive-level technical credibility, and makes sound risk judgements in complex production environments.

Required Experience

• Extensive senior-level experience in enterprise Network Security, security architecture, security engineering or operations within large, complex environments; demonstrated client advisory, large-scale vulnerability remediation, patch/change governance, security automation/orchestration and production rollout experience.

• Practical exposure to Agentic AI, GenAI or AI-assisted operations and experience collaborating with major Network Security OEMs and cross-functional engineering/delivery teams.
  

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, operating systems, and infrastructure designs.
• In-depth understanding of how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, and COBIT.
• Ability to develop and utilize advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Extensive experience in technical, IT, or operations roles within large-scale technology services environments.
• Strong client engagement and consulting experience, including needs assessment and change management.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams such as sales, product, and delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A continuous learning mindset to stay updated on trends and developments in technology domains.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field.

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this remote role is $111K - $207K. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.  This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits. 

Workplace type:

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Accelerate your career with us. Apply today