Solutions Specialist

Job Description

Role: Solution Designer

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Grade: GCB4

Location: Sheffield

Solutions Designers are responsible for the end-to-end solution design and delivery in support of enhancing quantum safety positions and ancillary solutions (technology stack, process, policy and guardrails). They are responsible for producing design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, Solutions Designer will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate. Solutions Designers will work closely with other technical SMEs to bring knowledge of quantum safe practices that can be integrated into their technologies and workflows, maintaining standard approaches where possible.

Solutions Designers should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders. Additionally, the Solutions Designer will provide technical thought leadership and direction to their aligned projects and may stand in as subject matter experts and consultants for related programmes.

Principal Preferred Requirements

Cybersecurity Expertise:

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• Significant experience and proven technical depth within the following domains: cryptography, data security, identity & access management, privileged access management.

Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level

Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes

Qualifications & Certifications:

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• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field

CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate

Platform & Technology:

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• Working proficiency in Jira for project & tasks management

Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation

BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Architecture, Technical & Design:

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• Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements

Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process

Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt

Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated. xwwtmva

Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes

Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project lifecycle

Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security

Promote strong documentation and clerkship

Governance:

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• Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes

Ensure all architecture and design artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation

Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval

Risk and Dependency Management:

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• Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues

Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues

Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change

Leadership & Teamwork

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• Provides technical thought leadership in their domain of expertise

Willingness and ability to work across information technology as a cybersecurity SME, particularly with knowledge of quantum safety.