Principal Information Security Architect – Data Security

Highmark Health

Principal Information Security Architect leading designs and advancements in data security architectures for Highmark Health. Overseeing enterprise data security strategies and collaborating with various teams.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeRemote • Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $129,100 - $214,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop systems and component architectures and APIs that meet the test of time.
Articulate and evangelize architectural principles reciprocally with engineering, architecture and product teams that ensure system components fit securely, are sustainable, and align with company’s business direction.
Analyze and recommend novel technologies, architectural solutions (and associated business cases) to the various technology executives across the company which simultaneously optimize value, risk, spend & design footprints.
Influence enterprise solutions architects and engineers to define, develop, maintain, and communicate the technology and platform strategy, guidelines, and re-usable design patterns to all levels including the Highmark Health executive team.
Work with external and internal engineering teams to provide continuous architecture and design mentorship/leadership and be a source of support that ensures successful product delivery and operational excellence in production, including leadership and support for application development and change management activities.
Establish relationships with key architects and executive technology leadership across the enterprise technology organization and collaborate on promoting architectural standard methodologies.
Collaborate with key internal and external partners such as security, developers, development managers, product and program management and senior technical and business executives to drive the Architecture strategy, reference enterprise architecture documents, functional specifications, designs, and architectural libraries.
Resolve approaches for new areas by quickly investigating and synthesizing the state of the art and available technologies including leading the development of enterprise solutions which meet current and future business requirements.
Take a consultative approach to develop, present and share the value and vision of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide audience.
Promote architecture standard methodologies and mentor key technical people within the Data Product organization.
Champion a culture of innovation in an environment that requires high levels of scalability, security and reliability for our most critical enterprise cloud and 'on premise' applications and infrastructure.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 years of experience in Information Security
4 years of experience as Information Security Architect with deep understanding of domains of security (e.g. zero trust, data protection, identity & access mgmt., threat mgmt., etc.)
3 years of experience with data management, query processing, distributed processing, high availability, statistical and machine learning and operational excellence of production systems.
3 years of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions (evaluation, integration, etc.) preferred
3 years of experience managing and leading teams preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree required
Security certifications (e.g. The Open Group Architecture Framework Certification (TOGAF), Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), etc.) preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Information SecurityData ManagementQuery ProcessingDistributed ProcessingStatistical AnalysisMachine LearningOperational ExcellenceArchitectural PrinciplesAPI DevelopmentChange Management

Soft Skills

MentorshipCollaborationConsultative ApproachInfluencing SkillsCommunication

Certifications

TOGAFCISSPCISM