Cybersecurity Senior Architect

Derive security specifications from business requirements, and design security solutions that support core organizational functions, assuring their confidentiality, integrity, and high availability. Gain organizational commitment for security infrastructure systems and software plans, and assist to evaluate and select security technologies required to complete those plans. Provide integrated infrastructure‑related technical expertise across the organization, from conceptualization and project planning to post‑implementation support.

The Security Solution Architect works, under limited supervision, with Corporate Information Security (CIS) personnel, Line of Business (LOB) personnel, external vendors, and internal IT Services personnel including Enterprise Architects, Application & Data Services personnel, and other IT Operations Services teams. Security Specifier designs security specifications, requirements and architecture artifacts in compliance with corporate standards, laws and regulations for architecture adherence and performance guidelines.

• Job Type: Regular (not temporary or contingent).
• Language Fluency:
  English (Required).
• Work Shift:
  
  1st shift (United States of America).

• Provide security infrastructure solution expertise, requirements, and assistance to Systems Analysts, Systems Engineers, other Solutions Architects, and application development teams.
• Confer with end‑users, clients, or senior management to define security infrastructure requirements for complex systems and infrastructure development.
• Design and oversee development and implementation of end‑to‑end integrated security infrastructure solutions and communicate needs for investing in infrastructure evolution, including analysis of cost‑reduction opportunities.
• Make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives for the company’s existing solution architecture and technology portfolio.
• Create and maintain system security context and preliminary system security concept of operations and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable regulations and standards.
• Liaison with Enterprise Architects to conduct research on emerging technologies and recommend technologies that will provide right‑sized security posture, operational efficiency, infrastructure flexibility and operational stability.
• Mentor less experienced teammates to build their own technical expertise.
• Demonstrate deep specialization or comprehensive knowledge in Information Security (Info Sec) technology and practices necessary to negotiate and persuade technology direction on security principals and tenets such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and non‑repudiation.
• Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture and develop security risk management plans.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent education and related training.
• Eight years of demonstrated experience of systems engineering and/or architecture in at least one information security area: network security, access management, endpoint protection, data loss prevention, vulnerability management, application security, forensics, web security, mainframe, incident response and/or cyber threat management in a medium to large corporation.
• Highly experienced in network security architecture, including design tools, methods, techniques and the application of Defense‑in‑Depth principles; knowledge of network design processes and security objectives.
• Specialized depth and thorough knowledge of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), including infrastructure, data, information security, applications, architectural concepts, and associated disciplines.
• Deep knowledge of the following areas:
  • Mainframe security, including access control, monitoring, integration with non‑mainframe technologies, and virtualization.
  • Authentication and authorization technologies including remote access.
  • Application security and the security development lifecycle and ability to apply to client‑server and web‑based application development environments.
  • Enterprise databases and…