Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. Your role and responsibilities As a Security Architect with a Security Solution Design Specialty, you will play a crucial role in supporting engagement pursuit teams in complex, multi-tower, cross-line of business, and international bids. You will utilize your area subject matter expertise to design and implement security solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients. Your primary responsibilities will include: - Design Security Solutions: Define the Security Subsystem and Security solution architecture, and integrate security across the technical and business solution to ensure the right level of security and protection for clients' businesses. - Evaluate Solution Components: Assess and select solution components, including hardware, software, process, and service components, to ensure deployment architectures for complex, competitive, winning, integrated solutions. - Support Sales Efforts: Collaborate directly with clients to understand their security needs and provide expertise to support sales efforts. - Develop Integrated Solutions: Ensure security solutions are integrated across the technical and business solution to meet the specific needs of our clients. - Gather Requirements: Perform requirements gathering to inform the design of security solutions that meet client needs. Required technical and professional expertise - Security Solution Design Expertise: Experience with designing and implementing security solutions that meet specific client needs, ensuring the right level of security and protection for their businesses. - Technical Integration Knowledge: Experience in integrating security across technical and business solutions, including defining Security Subsystems and Security solution architectures. - Solution Component Evaluation: Experience with evaluating and selecting solution components, including hardware, software, process, and service components, to ensure deployment architectures for complex solutions. - Security Requirements Gathering: Experience with performing requirements gathering to inform the design of security solutions that meet client needs. - Cross-Domain Security Expertise: Experience in designing security solutions for complex, multi-tower, cross-line of business, and international environments. Preferred technical and professional experience - Cross-Domain Security Knowledge: Experience with designing security solutions for complex, multi-tower, cross-line of business, and international environments, with the ability to adapt to diverse client needs. - Advanced Technical Integration: Experience in integrating security across technical and business solutions, including defining Security Subsystems and Security solution architectures, to deliver comprehensive security solutions. - Competitive Solution Evaluation: Experience with evaluating and selecting solution components, including hardware, software, process, and service components, to ensure deployment architectures for complex, competitive solutions. 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.