Security Architect- Expert

Imagine being at the forefront of securing a leading financial services organization, where your expertise directly translates into protecting critical assets and enabling innovative growth. Aquent is partnering with a dynamic institution that is building a centralized Cybersecurity Services team, a true center of excellence dedicated to advancing security posture. As a Security Architect, you won't just design; you'll be a pivotal force, crafting resilient security solutions and strategies that safeguard data integrity, availability, and confidentiality across a global landscape.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to join a Security Design team that shapes the organization's security strategy and architecture vision. You will drive and synchronize security strategies aligned with technology and business priorities, validating future directions through cutting-edge security research and innovation. Your contributions will directly influence security decision-making, ensuring the highest levels of integrity and protection for all entrusted data.

• Leading secure design reviews and overseeing the implementation of on-premises and cloud security controls for numerous internal and external business IT projects and applications, directly contributing to revenue growth.
• Collaborating with Domain Architects and Product Managers to define robust security requirements and establish secure deployment patterns for diverse solutions.
• Articulating solution intent and operating environments, identifying primary systems/subsystems, their interfaces, and defining non-functional requirements and architectural runways for new features and opportunities.
• Conducting thorough reviews, assessments, and sign-offs on projects, evaluating risk and ensuring strict adherence to security policies, standards, and industry best practices.
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by engaging with stakeholders, evaluating strategic design decisions, and working with vendors/service providers.
• Contributing to the development of best practices, standard templates, and the architectural roadmap for various security domains.
• Translating business, technology, and threat drivers into practical security capabilities across the organization.
• Clarifying architectural details for development teams to facilitate implementation and offering solution options to overcome architectural impediments.
• Performing comprehensive design reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements, including security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability, are sufficiently met.
• Engaging with other security architects and practitioners to foster knowledge sharing and propagate best practices.

• Education: A 4-year college/university degree is required.
• Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing security infrastructure or solutions.
• Domain Expertise: Strong multiple domain experience with broad knowledge of security foundations.
• Authentication: In-depth knowledge of customer authentication processes for digital and voice platforms.
• Risk Management: Detailed understanding of security domains, including the ability to document risks, evaluate remediation options, and present findings to technical and executive leadership.
• Adaptability: Demonstrated flexibility and resilience in rapidly changing situations, effectively collaborating with diverse individuals and groups.
• Architectural Acumen: Proven experience with security architecture reviews and implementing security controls across Identity and Access Management (IAM), Data Protection, Application Security, Network Security, and Security Analytics.
• Secure Design: Expertise in delivering secure designs aligned with security requirements and reference architectures.

• Emerging Technologies: Experience with AI security.
• Cloud Security: Experience in the assessment, development, implementation, integration, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive set of security technologies and processes in on-premise, public, and private cloud environments.
• Framework Knowledge: Strong knowledge of enterprise security…