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About The Role

As a Senior Associate – Security Architecture, Design & Proof of Value, you will drive impactful contributions and focus on outcomes. You will be part of the Cybersecurity Architecture & Risk organization, supporting the architecture, design, assessment, and validation of security technology solutions.

You will combine security architecture consulting with hands-on participation in Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV) activities. Working with Senior Managers, security architects,



enterprise architects, engineering teams, and technology vendors, you will translate security requirements into practical designs, validate security controls, assess emerging technologies, and develop evidence-based recommendations.

In This Role, You Will

• Support security architecture and solution-design reviews across cloud, applications, infrastructure, data, identity, network, and AI domains. Translate business and technology requirements into security requirements, architecture patterns, control recommendations, and practical solution designs.
• Participate in architecture assurance, threat modelling, and design reviews to identify security gaps, dependencies, risks, potential attack paths, and recommended remediation. Assess controls covering IAM, privileged access, workload/service identities, segmentation, encryption, secrets, logging, monitoring, and data protection.
• Plan and execute cybers

📌 Sr. Security Specialist (India)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 India