Senior Cybersecurity Architect
GuideWell Source
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $126,800 - $158,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Cyber Security
About the role
- Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.
- Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms. Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
- Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
- Participates in security governance processes.
- Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
- Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
- Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
- Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
- Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
- Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
- Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.
- Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents.
- Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.
- Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
- Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
- Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
- Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.
- Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
- Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years related work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT projects
- Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience in IT related field or equivalent work experience
- Required Licenses and Certifications: Sr Cybersecurity Architect Enterprise Cybersecurity Services: CISSP 180 Days
- Highly developed proficiency in creating architectural designs for progressively complex designs
- Highly adept at consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation
- Demonstrated ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance
- Advanced knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology security solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements
- Demonstrated effective decision-making skills related to implementing security architecture and design
- Knowledge of Information Security procedures, controls of common information management systems, and Project Management Methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with defense in depth, trust levels, privileges and permissions
- Demonstrated ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives
- In-depth business process knowledge of several key business functional areas
- Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
- Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
- Leave programs to support personal circumstances
- Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
- Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
- Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
security architecturesecurity strategysecurity monitoringsecurity metricstechnical designsecurity controlssecurity threats investigationsecurity incident reportingarchitectural designdefense in depth
Soft skills
consultingnegotiatingcommunicatingconsensus buildingpresentationfacilitationdecision-makingconstructive feedback applicationrelationship buildingproblem-solving
Certifications
CISSP