**Introduction** At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Security Architect, you'll be focusing on designing, analysing and validating security controls and also help deliver unique client co-creation experiences to accelerate their enterprise transformation programs. This role involves ensuring compliance with various security standards and regulations, conducting security assessments, and collaborating to integrate security into the business transformation lifecycle. Your primary responsibilities will include: * Technical Leadership: Act as the overall technical single point of contact for client-facing experiential engagements that encompass a broad range of public and hybrid cloud technologies. * Conducting Security Assessments: Regularly assessing the security posture of client architectures to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with internal policies and industry frameworks. * Developing Security Standards and Automation: Contributing to the development of security standards, best practices, and automation scripts for security monitoring and compliance validation. Utilize expertise in contemporary cloud, Al, and analytics skills to understand frameworks and integrated solutions that address prospective clients' most challenging problems, using products and services from IBM's offerings. * Auditing and Compliance: Ensuring that the cloud environment adheres to relevant security standards and regulations, such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks * Solution Delivery: Manage all aspects of integrated solution delivery, from identifying requirements to making technical decisions that impact the delivery of solutions, ensuring they provide business value. Make sure that final proposals include provisions for security and reliability while meeting clients' current and future needs. * Security Architecture Ownership: Take ownership of the security architecture plan and participate as a hands-on in client-facing engagements. Potentially leading a team of security professionals, providing guidance, and mentoring junior team members * Continuous Knowledge Expansion: Continually expand your knowledge in relevant areas, including business, integration technologies and data integration technologies **Required technical and professional expertise** * Hybrid Cloud Proficiency: Proficiency in a wide range of hybrid cloud technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, Cyber Security, Red Hat OpenShift, and IBM Cloud Paks. * Technical Leadership and Solutioning: * Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance for customer-facing technical solutions teams and facilitate experiential problem discovery, framing, and solutioning sessions. * Agile Project Management: Experience with Agile best practices to ensure the on-time delivery of complex technology projects, including methodologies like extreme programming, paired programming, scrum, and test-driven development **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Communication and Presentation Skills: * Ability to deliver compelling presentations, instilling trusted advisor confidence and credibility, which quick builds trust and mutual respect with diverse stakeholders, from coders to the c-suite. * Experience in Technical Domains: * Expertise in diverse technical domains, including application modernization, business automation, Site Reliability Engineering, AlOps, Edge Computing, integration technologies and data integration technologies IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.