Cyber Security Architect

Please see below job description :

Experience - 6yrs+

Location - Pune / Bangalore (Hybrid)

The Secure by Supplier Manager is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating Cyber security and regulatory risks associated with third-party suppliers. This role ensures Vodafone’s compliance with UK-specific regulations, i.e., the UK Telecom Security Act, and embeds secure-by-design principles into supplier engagements from the earliest stages.

The role holder will focus on implementing secure by design principles.

Key responsibilities include :

• Performing technical assessments of a supplier’s security posture and compliance to UK regulatory requirements during supplier sourcing and contracting.
• Measuring the security & compliance risk, documenting all findings and provision of a security recommendation into the sourcing decision
• Engaging with external suppliers to clarify, understand & influence their regulatory compliance and general security position.
• Management of multiple stakeholders and functional subject matter experts in order to verify a security position and drive effective decision outcomes
• Being the technical subject matter expert in the communication of security risks when liaising with the business, technology and third-party vendors.
• Identifying required contractual provisions to mitigate and minimise the risk to Vodafone and support Supplier Cyber Security in their negotiation of contractual security requirements.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience :

experience beneficial.

Must have technical / professional qualifications :