About this role
<p><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>About the role</strong></span><br>The Security Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) is a high-impact, technical thought-leader responsible for assisting clients in architecting enterprise-grade security solutions. You will assist our clients in meeting the challenge to protect and enable large-scale data center and networking environments to achieve their business outcomes. The Security CEA, (as an infrastructure and data security subject matter expert) is a difference maker in customer engagements. You combine deep network and security expertise with business acumen to drive the success of our clients’ major infrastructure initiatives. As a member of the broader Solution Sales Organization; your focus is on the sales goals & growth of our own business. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Annual Salary Range:</strong> $160K - $200K USD </p> <p><br><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.</li> <li>As a Network Infrastructure Security thought-leader, you’ll design and propose security architectures and solution use-cases for data center and enterprise networks. Your most significant contributions will be delivered in areas such as <br>micro-segmentation, zero trust network architecture, secure multitenancy & hybrid clouds, data protection, threat detection & response, identity & access management and policy creation & enforcement.</li> <li>Lead the creation and evolution of a Domain Tech Strategies that are adopted by your domain and technology business stakeholders</li> <li>Create and maintain a current and target view of our Enterprise Architecture to deliver our business and technology strategies.</li> <li>Support business and technology change through capability roadmaps that inform Portfolio prioritization.</li> <li>Establish and assure effective architecture governance and tooling to support Solution Architecture and other GIS teams.</li> <li>Work closely with our Solution Architecture function ensuring that Tech Strategy is viable and new ‘solutions’ can be architected within the EA Principles/Guardrails and still deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas</li> <li>Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning processes to ensure that the initiatives and plans are consistent with the agreed tech strategies</li> <li>Ensuring our EA tool information is up to date and has the required breadth and depth</li> <li>Support the development of architecture tools and techniques to support others in the practice</li> <li>Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.</li> </ul> <p><br><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>What you have</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>5+ years' experience as a Lead or Domain Enterprise Architect</li> <li>Must possess a working history with the top OEMs in the Network & Data Security space such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Splunk, Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Fortinet, Dell etc.</li> <li>Experience creating and embedding technology strategies either within a business domain or with in a large-scale transformation program</li> <li>Legally eligible to work in the United States</li> <li>Effective communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business terminology</li> <li>A proven track record of building strong relationships with customer CISOs, security teams, and infrastructure leaders by delivering expert guidance on risk reduction, compliance, and secure infrastructure transformation.</li> <li>Ability to build trusted and respect as a ‘thought leader’ who can influence and when appropriate persuade technology and business leaders</li> <li>Ability to be technology neutral: unbiased towards any specific technology or vendor choice, entirely motivated by getting to ‘value & outcomes’</li> <li>Ability to propose and effectively estimate proposed solution commercials</li> <li>Exceptional interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation</li> <li>Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technology skills</li> </ul> <p> </p><p><span style="color:#000080"><b>What you can expect</b></span></p> <p>There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color:#000080"><b>About us</b></span></p> <p>Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. <a href="https://www.computacenter.com/us">www.computacenter.com/us</a></p>