Midrand: Solution Architect – Security

About the Role

The Security Solution Architect Portfolio & Strategy role at Gijima Security is responsible for defining, evolving and governing the company’s cyber security services portfolio. As part of this role, you will shape security offerings aligned to market demand, vendor capability and strategic growth objectives. You will support go-to-market activities through solution positioning, client engagement, proposal development and strategic bid support.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Gijima’s cyber security services portfolio in alignment with Gijima strategic objectives.
• Develop standardised, scalable and commercially viable service offerings.
• Supporting Sales to meet and exceed the financial and strategic sales targets in the country/region.
• Central interface between Bid Management, Solution Sales and internal/external delivery units for complex security projects.
• Technical support for Sales during the acquisition phase.
• Integration of technology partners / vendors into the security solution design.
• Align the solution design in complex projects with involved stakeholders within Gijima and external partners.
• Act as architectural authority for complex security bids and major deals.
• Design Authority for solutions according to approved solution and service descriptions.
• Crafting competitive solution options and optimizing these with OEMs and partners.
• Technical steering of Engineering, Operation and Consulting in the deal team.
• Stream lead for security topics in complex mixed deals (Big and Major Deal Support) for costing and design of security solutions.
• Support smooth handover to Delivery for the realization phase.
• Work with partners to understand and promote reselling relating to security portfolio elements.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the sales team and Gijima Security community for knowledge sharing and collective solution development.

Requirements

• Grade 12 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or comparable qualification.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, Azure/AWS Security, or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 10 years experience in cyber security solution architecture, portfolio development or senior pre-sales architecture.
• Proven experience defining and commercializing cyber security service offerings across enterprise and cloud environments.

Qualifications

No formal education qualifications mentioned.