Overview
Ready to shape and govern secure‑by‑design solutions across Cyber Operations?
We have an exciting opportunity for you – Security Solution Architect (Cyber Ops)!
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TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve — our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.
Responsibilities
* Design and govern security solutions that directly strengthen Cyber Operations across a complex enterprise environment.
* Work at the intersection of operational security, enterprise architecture, and customer governance.
* Influence strategic security direction while ensuring solutions remain resilient, scalable, and compliant.
The Role
As a Security Solution Architect (Cyber Ops), you will design and govern security solutions across Cyber Operations in line with enterprise security standards and customer‑defined frameworks. You will bridge Cyber Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and governance teams to ensure solutions are secure by design, scalable, and operationally effective, guiding designs through approval and into delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Design end‑to‑end security solutions across Cyber Operations domains including SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Security Automation.
* Translate operational requirements into architecturally compliant designs aligned to approved security standards, frameworks, and patterns.
* Produce high‑quality architecture artefacts to support design, governance, and delivery activities.
* Ensure solution designs meet security, resilience, scalability, performance, and operability requirements.
* Prepare and present solution designs to the Architecture Design Authority (ADA), clearly articulating design intent, key decisions, risks, and mitigations.
* Maintain traceability between customer standards, enterprise frameworks, and implemented solutions.
* Innovate security solutions within defined architectural guardrails by leveraging existing platforms and capabilities.
* Partner with Cyber Operations teams to improve security outcomes, efficiency, and resilience without introducing architectural divergence.
* Act as a trusted architectural advisor to Cyber Operations leads, engineers, and delivery teams.
* Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Security Architect to align solution designs with strategic roadmaps and architectural direction.
* Support delivery teams during implementation by clarifying designs and resolving architectural issues.
* Ensure security designs address regulatory, contractual, and customer security requirements.
* Support assurance, audit, and compliance activities through design justification, threat models, and evidence provision.
* Ensure solutions are operationally viable, supportable, and aligned with SOC and operational processes.
* Support transition of approved solutions into build and run phases while maintaining architectural oversight.
Your Profile
Essential skills / knowledge / experience
* Strong experience in cybersecurity roles, with experience operating in an architecture or senior design capacity.
* Demonstrated experience architecting solutions across Cyber Security and Cyber Operations functions.
* Experience working within predefined enterprise security frameworks, standards, and architectural guardrails.
* Ownership of solution architecture from concept to operational handover, including high‑level and detailed design and security assurance.
* Experience collaborating closely with SOC, Incident Response, and platform teams to deliver operationally viable designs.
* Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
Other benefits and commitments
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / +44 204 520 2575 to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
Next Steps
Application Process (optional)
* Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/ by uploading your CV. In case you wish to submit your application via another format like audio/video, please, contact - UKI.recruitment@tcs.com
* Skill-Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in-person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
* Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person-organisation fit.
* HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.
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Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.
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