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Cybersecurity Architect

Microsoft· Solution Architecture
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Hybrid (India (Remote not specified))$0Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior customer-facing technical leader accountable for secure-by-design architectures, presales solutioning, delivery governance, risk management, and measurable customer outcomes across Microsoft Security, cloud security, identity, data protection, SecOps, compliance, and AI security.

Responsibilities

  • Lead secure, scalable and outcome-driven architecture across Microsoft Security and adjacent cloud platforms.
  • Translate customer business, regulatory and technology needs into pragmatic security roadmaps and solution designs.
  • Identify architectural risks, control gaps, dependencies and delivery blockers; propose mitigations and alternate controls.
  • Guide teams through ambiguity by clarifying options, trade-offs, standards and next-step decisions.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to customer security leaders, including CISOs, enterprise architects and SecOps leaders.
  • Lead architecture workshops, solution reviews, executive briefings and steering conversations.
  • Connect Microsoft Security capabilities to business outcomes such as risk reduction, resilience, compliance, operational efficiency and secure innovation.
  • Partner with sales, solution architects, pursuit teams and delivery leaders to shape qualified security opportunities.
  • Support discovery, qualification, estimation, resource planning, SOW inputs and solution strategy.
  • Review deal constructs for feasibility, staffing alignment, delivery readiness, architecture quality and risk.
  • Contribute to EAG Security deal governance, technical reviews, presales triage and follow-on opportunity identification.
  • Provide architectural oversight during implementation through checkpoint reviews, risk reviews and escalation support.
  • Embed AI-first and automation-led delivery practices to improve quality, scale and speed of delivery.
  • Reuse and contribute to EAG Security delivery IP, accelerators, reference architectures and implementation patterns.
  • Support adoption of EAG Security agents and AI security capabilities where relevant to customer context.

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of enterprise security architecture, information security practices, governance and risk management.
  • Hands-on architecture depth in Microsoft Security: Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Purview, Defender for Cloud, Intune security, Security Copilot and related services.
  • Architecture experience across Azure and, preferably, multi-cloud environments including AWS and GCP.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001 and common regulatory expectations.
  • Experience with threat modeling, secure design reviews, vulnerability management, penetration testing, DevSecOps and control validation.
  • Ability to govern Azure and M365 security posture, data flows, endpoint hardening, API/token security, Purview controls, PII/PCI handling and Zero Trust architecture.
  • Executive communication and CISO-level advisory skills with the ability to simplify complex security trade-offs.
  • Strong consultative presales, solution-shaping and stakeholder management experience.
  • Ability to lead difficult technical conversations across stakeholders with different levels of security maturity.
  • Proven collaboration across sales, delivery, customer success, engineering, support, partners and global EAG stakeholders.
  • Mentoring mindset, with ability to build team capability through readiness, shadowing, knowledge sharing and reusable assets.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Recommended 10+ years of relevant cybersecurity, cloud security, architecture or consulting experience with exposure to complex customer engagements.
  • Preferred - CISSP strongly preferred. Additional certifications such as CISM, CCSP, CCSK, AZ-500, SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, SC-400 or equivalent cloud/security certifications.
  • Experience with AI-first or automation-led security delivery models is valuable.

Skills

Required:Security architectureMicrosoft Security technologiesAzure and multi-cloudThreat modeling and secure designExecutive communication
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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