About The Role
We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role: Solutions Architect
Location: Birmingham (SCC operates hybrid working, which comprises a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £70,000- £95,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life‑long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe’s largest privately‑owned IT company
Role purpose:
SCC leverages several strategic partners to deliver our Cyber Managed Services, including (but not limited to) Microsoft, Tenable and CrowdStrike. The role of the Solutions Architect is pivotal, working across multiple services and associated technologies related to Cyber Security including Managed Extended Detection & Response (MXDR), Threat Intelligence, Compliance, and Vulnerability Management.
The Solutions Architect will provide expertise for these technologies, working closely with our Sales Specialists and Product Management to design security outcomes that fulfil customer requirements and to ensure all solutions are presented and scoped according to the SCC service descriptions.
Key responsibilities:
Sales Cycle Support
- Work with our Cyber Sales Specialists to respond to RFI, RFP and Tender
- Support customers in all aspects of solution design, helping define the scope, identify successful outcomes and conform to required prerequisites
- Ensure that the appropriate documentation sets are created including SOWs, Pricing Models and Proposals
Subject Matter Expert
- Deliver demos and presentations covering Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, Threat Intelligence, Pulse and Vision
- Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of evolving best practices in the field of cyber security
Delivery Support
- Knowledge transfer when a customer moves from sales to technical delivery, and on into service operation
- Ensuring design documentation is accurate and in place for use by delivery and operational teams, including the High‑Level Design (HLD)
Product Development
- Participate in one or more of our Subject Matter Expert (SME) groups within the Cyber team
- Work with our Product Architecture team to identify areas of technical development of our services
- Work with our Product Management team to identify opportunities for service enhancements based on customer feedback
Requirements:
- Deep understanding of SIEM and XDR solutions, specifically based on Microsoft and CrowdStrike
- Understanding of Vulnerability Management solutions, specifically Tenable and Microsoft Defender Threat & Vulnerability Management
- Ability to translate customer needs into relevant solutions
- Excellent communication (written and verbal)
- Advisory mindset
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Active listening abilities
- Analytical and persuasive abilities
- Teamwork & cross‑functional collaboration
- University Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science or similar (desirable)
- 2 to 5 years’ experience working in a Managed Security Service Provider environment
- Evidence of continued professional development within Cyber Security
- Must be able to obtain the Government and/or Police Security levels required to meet the operational requirements of the role and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.
About Us
SCC is Europe’s largest privately‑owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham. We help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company passionate about IT and aim to simplify the complex.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer.
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non‑membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know at the point of scheduling.
Additional Resources
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC – https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Sustainability at SCC – https://www.scc.com/sustainability-at-scc/
Life at SCC – https://www.linkedin.com/company/scc/life
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