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About The Role

As a Senior Manager – Security Architecture, Design & Proof of Value, you will be a senior technical leader within the Cybersecurity Architecture & Risk organization, translating security strategy into practical architecture, solution designs, advisory outcomes, and validated security capabilities. You will partner with enterprise architects, security engineering, infrastructure, cloud, application, data, AI, risk, compliance, and vendor teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions and technology-driven business outcomes.





You will have the autonomy to lead strategic architecture initiatives, perform hands-on security technology validations, and provide executive recommendations supported by evidence, testing, and business value realization.

In This Role, You Will

Lead security architecture and design engagements across cloud, applications, infrastructure, data, identity, network, and emerging technology domains.
Translate business, technology, and security requirements into secure target architectures, reference architectures, solution designs, and actionable security control requirements.
Lead and personally contribute to cybersecurity Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV) initiatives, from use case definition through implementation, testing, validation, and executive recommendations.
Evaluate cybersecurity technologies and vendor solutions, assessing security capabilities, integration feasibility,

📌 Senior Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai