Security Architect

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Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of WBD enterprise architecture to support the organization effectively and securely in meeting specific business technology needs. This candidate will be considered a technical expert. Ideal candidates will have the following expectations, execute architecture design reviews to evaluate security controls and identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of WBD business environments, build relationships with infrastructure architects and engineering leads to disseminate and explain secure design methodologies and policies.

Ideal candidates will also understand the landscape and components of innovative architecture and the methods to securely deploy them.

As security architect, ideal candidate is expected to:

• Understand technical security issues and the implications to WBD businesses and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
• Maintain and enforce WBD’s cybersecurity policies and secure design documentation.
• Execute and improve on WBD’s Security architecture review process and ensure compliance for all business initiatives.
• Architect global programs that deploy strong security patterns and controls across applications and computing environments, while addressing security, business resiliency, privacy, and compliance frameworks
• Identify security vulnerabilities and guide developers and engineers in addressing these issues
• Improve architectural adoption through automation and efficiently use security tools to solve challenges at scale.
• Validate reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk, where applicable
• Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that WBD maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.

• Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]). Identify and address security gaps, align standards, frameworks and security with business and IT strategy.
• Advise technology teams and senior management of identified risks and treatment options. Define or revise security elements, standards, and solutions for various technologies to achieve optimal security posture while delivering on business goals.
• Host and operating systems hardening, baselines, auditing, monitoring and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals.
• Conduct security reviews and assessments to regularly determine the effectiveness of infrastructure and security platforms and identify areas of security risks and mitigations / improvements.
• Determine the appropriate use of emerging security technologies within business applications.
• Identify, architect / design risk mitigation strategies / solutions, exceptions for infrastructure systems that were designed without system security considerations and security policies.
• Maintain and enforce WBD cybersecurity policies and secure design…