Principal Information Security Architect - Data Security

Job Summary

*** CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)***

The Principal Information Security Architect – Data Security serves as the enterprise leader for designing and advancing data security architectures that protect sensitive information across its entire lifecycle. This role partners with business, technology, data, cloud, and security teams to establish secure solutions for modern data platforms, analytics environments, distributed query engines, and enterprise data movement capabilities.

The architect develops enterprise strategies for encryption, key management, tokenization, data masking, data classification, data loss prevention, and database security to safeguard sensitive and regulated data. He/she guides the adoption of Zero Trust principles and data‑centric security controls that enable secure access while reducing organizational risk. The position evaluates emerging technologies, develops security roadmaps, promotes secure design patterns for data integration, APIs, data pipelines, and information exchange, and serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and engineering teams.

• 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 the company’s business direction.
• Analyze and recommend novel technologies, architectural solutions (and associated business cases) to technology executives across the company that simultaneously optimize value, risk, spend, and design footprints.
• Influence enterprise solutions architects and engineers to define, develop, maintain, and communicate the technology and platform strategy, guidelines, and reusable design patterns to all levels, including the executive team.
• Work with internal and external engineering teams to provide continuous architecture and design mentorship and support for 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 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 that 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 critical enterprise cloud and on‑premise applications and infrastructure.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

• Required:
  
  10 years of experience in Information Security.
• Required:
  
  4 years of experience as an Information Security Architect with deep understanding of domains such as Zero Trust, data protection, identity & access management, threat management, etc.
• Required:
  
  3 years of experience with data management, query processing, distributed processing, high availability, statistical and machine learning and operational excellence of production systems.
• Preferred: 3 years of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions (evaluation, integration, etc.).
• Preferred: 3 years of experience managing and leading teams.

• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including the ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and…