Role:
Lead Enterprise Architect – 12 month FTC
Location:
Manchester, Cheltenham, London
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We are on a mission to make society a safer and more secure place. Our people are the ones who make that possible; a global community of talented individuals working together towards a safer future.
We aim to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We work together, we are brilliantly creative, we embrace difference and we want you to join in our mission, to make the world safer and more secure.
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The Opportunity:
As a Lead Enterprise Architect at NCC Group, you play a critical role in helping organisations protect their digital assets by designing and delivering cutting-edge cyber security solutions. You act as the technical bridge between clients and our internal teams, translating complex needs into effective, tailored security architectures.
This role is vital to NCC Group's success as it drives both innovation and client trust, enabling businesses to navigate ever-evolving cyber threats with confidence. By ensuring robust, scalable, and commercially sound solutions, you directly contribute to a safer digital world, one secure network at a time.
Responsibilities:
* Delivering security technology consulting services to customers, including requirements capture, solution architectures, technology integration and provide operate as the pre-sales conduit between the client and NCC Group
* Understand the technical product portfolio to assist in the design and development of technical solutions.
* Undertake technical pre-sales engagements with customers, including but not limited to:
* Presenting, Demonstrating, evangelising NCC Group's Extended Detection and response, SOC and other advanced threat solutions to potential clients and prospects.
* Generation of customer proposals
* Communication of Technical Risk to key NCC Group stakeholders
* Become the "techie friend" of the client, providing go to advice and support for security solutions.
* Communicating at all levels with clients from deep technical through to board in a clear, understandable, and approachable way.
* Supporting Sales and Accounts team to nurture and progress client new business wins and existing business retention in proposals and RFPs/Tenders.
* Elicit customer requirements, define their business requirements, and deliver quality input into bids and proposals – working with Senior Solution Architects on matters related to their specific specialism.
* Evangelise services, products, and technologies, and develop networking relationships with customers and industry contacts.
* Capture and provide customer/business requirements and feedback on existing products.
* Providing input to/influence new technical developments/approaches within our markets.
Qualifications and Skills:
* A deep understanding of technology and processes related to the Security Operation Centres (Splunk, Microsoft, Carbon Black and CrowdStrike ideally but not required) and related activities.
* Experience in scoping and designing client solutions.
* Cyber Security Expert with evidence of continuous learning and up to date knowledge of the industry and its challenges and solutions.
* Understanding of business and financial drivers behind security monitoring solutions.
* An analytical mind able to visualise, conceptualise, articulate problems and construct solutions.
* Excellent written communication skills: the ability to structure and articulate written communications in a persuasive and succinct form as well as grammatically correct.
* Excellent verbal communication skills and strong presentation skills.
* Proven interpersonal skills and the ability to manage key stakeholders at all levels.
* Information Security related degree or equivalent experience.
Behaviours:
* Focusing on Clients and Customers
* Working as One NCC
* Being Inclusive and Respectful
* Always Learning
* Delivers Brilliantly
What we offer in return:
* Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
* Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
* Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
* Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
* Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
* Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
* Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
* Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
* Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.
About NCC Group
The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.
We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.
Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect.
We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.
About your application
We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we're looking for. If you don't hear back from us within 10 days, please don't be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.
If you do not want us to retain your details, please email All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Policy. We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.
Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process. This role being advertised will be subject to BS7858 screening as a mandatory requirement.