Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect

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Overview


The Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect acts as a strategic cybersecurity leader, guiding the organization’s security architecture, cyber risk reduction, and secure technology transformation initiatives. In this role, the Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect provides expert guidance on applying existing, new, and emerging security technologies and architecture practices to protect enterprise assets, enable secure business growth, and strengthen the organization’s cyber resilience. This role operates as a senior individual contributor and enterprise technical authority, influencing strategy, standards, and architecture direction through expertise, governance, and cross-functional leadership rather than direct people management.

This role leads the cybersecurity architecture function, translating threat intelligence, regulatory expectations, business priorities, and enterprise technology strategy into security roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, and design patterns. The Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect ensures that solutions are secure by design, resilient, scalable, maintainable, and aligned to the organization’s long-term cybersecurity and business objectives.

Primary Responsibilities


• Lead the development of enterprise cybersecurity architecture vision and technology direction, connecting business strategy, cyber risk priorities, and security capabilities through actionable architecture roadmaps and guiding principles.
• Shape and maintain the cybersecurity architecture roadmap across identity, infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, network, endpoint, third-party, and operational technology domains; coordinate investment plans, interdependencies, and enterprise priorities.
• Serve as a senior security design authority for the most complex, high-risk, cross-portfolio solutions; lead cybersecurity architecture governance; and ensure adherence to security roadmaps, standards, policies, and control requirements.
• Establish and maintain authoritative security design patterns, reference architectures, control patterns, and cybersecurity architecture standards to drive consistent adoption across the enterprise.
• Define security architecture guidance for emerging technologies, including AI and Generative AI, with attention to data protection, access controls, model risk, responsible AI practices, and secure lifecycle standards.
• Assess external cyber threat trends, emerging attack techniques, regulatory expectations, and security technology forces; author executive position papers that identify strategic cyber risks, opportunities, and required investments.
• Ensure vendor, platform, and…