Solutions Architect, NCC Group
Leading cyber security & managed services
Job no longer available
Leading cyber security & managed services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help keep their customers safe and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Strong presales/technical consultancy skills including risk mitigation, stakeholder management, reporting, and time management
- Demonstrable experience managing and successfully consulting external/client facing delivery projects
- The ability to hold technical conversations and absorb technical information. Experience in a similar role would be highly beneficial
- Demonstrable understanding of complex, full life-cycle software development projects in Agile framework
- Strong ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels including external
- Well versed and competent in reporting, document generation and technical plans/designs
- Commercially savvy with the ability to understand and recommend commercial propositions
What the job involves
- As a Solution Architect within NCC Group’s Escode division, you will be a technical specialist across a broad range of Software Escrow services to our clients and technology partners. Your core focus is to be a technical point of contact both internally and externally, supporting revenue growth through predominantly existing clients
- As a Solution Architect, you will have good knowledge of Software Application Development and Cloud Infrastructure, working alongside Sales, Legal and Technical Operations Teams, to create market leading solutions
- Attendance of client conference calls or onsite meetings establishing and documenting complex technical requirements to support the Account Management team in their positioning of our technical services
- Quality assurance of complex client-facing documents, including proposals and methodology literature, to ensure the solution proposed by NCC Group meets the client’s requirements, and that the time allowed in the proposals is sufficient to perform the work in scope
- Provision of technical scoping information to internal resources to establish correct delivery methodology and associated timescales. This information will be primarily via written form, but will include face-to-face discussions, or over the telephone, as required
- Completing regional technical documentation and submit project deliverables to the highest quality
- Provision of technical scoping information to external resources to establish correct delivery methodology and associated costs. This information will be primarily via written form, but will include face-to-face discussions, or over the telephone, as required
- Creation of Solution Design Documentation to ensure accurate transfer of solution and requirements to the Scheduling Team and delivering Verification Consultant
- Acting as an escalation point for technical assistance required by Verification Consultant delivering the Verification exercises
- In situations that require a hybrid agile approach, use good judgement and experience to develop and promote any process improvement initiatives that are suitable for planning and managing the effort to achieve service delivery within designated project constraints
- Ensuring and enforcing a regional focus on all initiatives with regular engagement to regional stakeholders
- Prepare for and conduct read-out calls with a customer following a technical delivery to walk through the deliverables and confirm that their objectives have been met
- Use read out calls to identify opportunities to upsell / cross-sell and feed this information back to the Account Management team
Application process
- We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles
Our take
NCC Group is a global cyber and software resilience businesses that assesses, develops and manages cyber threats. The company operates across multiple sectors, geographies and technologies but with the universal mission of communicating the best ways to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.
As we become more entrenched in the digital age, businesses are more vulnerable to cyber-related risk, and this is where NCC Group comes in. Its services work to make the Internet safer and to change the way that organisations think about cyber security. It continues to build momentum as our society becomes increasingly connected but more uncertain.
NCC Group's role is only set to grow too. As technology evolves and cyber threats become more sophisticated, businesses and individuals will need trusted partners to navigate the risks. NCC Group's expertise, global reach, and proactive approach puts it in a position to help organisations not only respond to threats, but to stay ahead of them.
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Company
Company HQ
Spinningfields, Manchester, UK
Leadership
Mike Maddison
(Group CEO)Former head of EY’s cyber security, privacy, and trusted technology practice for EMEA. Previously led PwC’s Risk Services practice across the Middle East and before that was head of Deloitte’s cyber security consultancy in EMEA.
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