Senior IT Information Security Architect

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The Senior IT Information Security Architect is a high-impact technical leadership role responsible for defining, guiding, and validating security architecture across Gentherm's global enterprise technology landscape. This role will establish secure-by-design standards, reference architectures, and practical security requirements for infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoint, network, application, operational technology, and data protection initiatives. The position partners with Information Security, Infrastructure, Digital Workplace, Enterprise Applications, Engineering, Legal, Internal Audit, Data Protection Officer, and business stakeholders to reduce cyber risk while enabling business transformation.

The role will help mature Gentherm's information security program by translating security strategy, regulatory obligations, customer expectations, and risk priorities into scalable architecture patterns and implementation roadmaps. The IT Security Architect Senior will serve as a senior subject matter expert for security design reviews, Zero Trust architecture, cloud and identity security, vulnerability and risk remediation, incident response readiness, and compliance alignment with frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001/27002, TISAX, SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2 and other applicable requirements.

• Define, maintain, and govern Gentherm's enterprise security architecture, standards, reference architectures, baseline security configurations, and secure designs across cloud, systems, network, identity, endpoint, application, and data environments.
• Design and guide security architectures for Identity and Access Management (IAM), Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Zero Trust, cloud platforms, Microsoft 365, e-mail security, hybrid infrastructure, secure remote access, network segmentation, and enterprise integrations.
• Partner with network, systems, applications, digital workplace, engineering, and manufacturing teams to embed security requirements and controls into technology roadmaps, operational processes, and solution designs.
• Lead security architecture reviews, design assessments, and technical risk evaluations for new technologies, projects, acquisitions, and major business initiatives, providing remediation recommendations and tracking risk treatment activities.
• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and regulatory requirements including SOX, TISAX, ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, EU AI Act, customer security requirements, and internal audit standards by providing architecture guidance, control mappings, and compliance support.
• Define, evaluate, and recommend security technologies, controls, and architectural improvements that enhance confidentiality, integrity, availability, resilience, and regulatory compliance across the global enterprise.
• Work closely with Security Operations to ensure architecture decisions support effective threat detection, monitoring, incident response, forensic readiness, vulnerability management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience objectives.
• Provide senior technical leadership and subject matter expertise during cybersecurity incidents, major risk remediation efforts, vulnerability reduction initiatives, and strategic security transformation programs.
• Develop and monitor architecture-related security metrics, KPIs, and risk indicators; communicate security posture, technology risks, exceptions, and remediation progress to IT leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Coordinates with manufacturing engineering and facility management teams to assess and improve the security of operational technology (OT) and IoT (Internet of Things) systems
• Evaluate security standard exceptions, recommend compensating controls, assess residual risks, and provide guidance on business impact and risk acceptance decisions.
• Lead or support enterprise security initiatives including technology evaluations, proof-of-concept activities, architecture roadmaps, security modernization…