Information Security Architect – Endpoint Security​/EDR-XDR

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We are seeking an experienced Information Security Architect – Endpoint Security to define, architect, and evolve the organization’s enterprise endpoint security strategy, with a primary focus on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and modern endpoint protection technologies. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in enterprise endpoint security architecture and demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and governing EDR/XDR solutions across large and complex environments.

This role will be responsible for establishing the architectural vision, security standards, technical roadmaps, and governance model for endpoint security across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. The role will translate business and security requirements into scalable endpoint security architectures and ensure endpoint controls align with the organization’s broader cybersecurity strategy, risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and evolving threat landscape. The candidate should be comfortable operating at both strategic and technical levels, providing architecture guidance while maintaining sufficient hands‑on expertise to evaluate solutions, validate designs, troubleshoot complex security issues, and guide engineering teams.

• Define and own the enterprise endpoint security architecture and technical strategy across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
• Develop and maintain the strategic roadmap for EDR, XDR, endpoint protection, endpoint detection, threat prevention, and response capabilities.
• Establish enterprise endpoint security architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology patterns.
• Architect and govern EDR/XDR solutions for large-scale, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous enterprise environments.
• Define security architecture requirements for endpoint protection, detection, telemetry, prevention, isolation, remediation, and threat hunting.
• Evaluate current‑state endpoint security capabilities and develop target‑state architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Assess and recommend EDR/XDR technologies based on security effectiveness, scalability, operational impact, integration capabilities, and total cost of ownership.
• Define architectural requirements for endpoint security integrations with SIEM, SOAR, IAM, vulnerability management, ITSM, cloud security, network security, and other enterprise security platforms.
• Establish architecture patterns for onboarding new business units, platforms, cloud workloads, and acquired environments into the enterprise endpoint security ecosystem.
• Ensure endpoint security architecture supports Zero Trust and defense‑in‑depth security strategies.
• Develop technology‑agnostic security requirements and evaluation criteria for EDR/XDR platforms.

• Serve as the senior technical authority and architecture SME for the enterprise EDR/XDR capability.
• Define the architecture, deployment model, organizational structure, policy hierarchy, and security control framework for EDR/XDR platforms.
• Establish enterprise standards for EDR/XDR policies, exclusions, application controls, agent configurations, security controls, and endpoint segmentation.
• Define architectural approaches for endpoint coverage, agent health, telemetry collection, detection, response, and centralized management.
• Develop scalable designs for EDR/XDR across thousands of enterprise endpoints and diverse operating‑system environments.
• Establish architecture and governance standards for agent lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration…