Security Architect

Security Architect at Warner Bros. Discovery

Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of WBD enterprise architecture to support the organization effectively and securely in meeting specific business technology needs.

• Understand technical security issues and the implications to WBD businesses and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
• Maintain and enforce WBD’s cybersecurity policies and secure design documentation.
• Execute and improve WBD’s Security architecture review process and ensure compliance for all business initiatives.
• Architect global programs that deploy strong security patterns and controls across applications and computing environments, while addressing security, business resiliency, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Identify security vulnerabilities and guide developers and engineers in addressing these issues.
• Improve architectural adoption through automation and efficiently use security tools to solve challenges at scale.
• Validate reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk, where applicable.
• Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that WBD maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.

• Apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization’s enterprise IT architecture (e.g., TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF). Identify and address security gaps, align standards, frameworks, and security with business and IT strategy.
• Advise technology teams and senior management of identified risks and treatment options. Define or revise security elements, standards, and solutions for various technologies to achieve optimal security posture while delivering on business goals.
• Host and operate systems hardening, baselines, auditing, monitoring, and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals.
• Conduct security reviews and assessments to regularly determine the effectiveness of infrastructure and security platforms and identify areas of security risks and mitigations/improvements.
• Determine the appropriate use of emerging security technologies within business applications.
• Identify, architect/design risk mitigation strategies, solutions, and exceptions for infrastructure systems that were designed without system security considerations and security policies.
• Maintain and enforce WBD cybersecurity policies and secure design documentation.

• A minimum of 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Security Architecture.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related discipline or 6+ years of previous technical experience, specifically security architecture experience.
• Security certifications – CISSP, CISM, CISA, SANS, Security+, etc.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources.
• Detailed understanding of the threats faced directly to consumer and digital platform organizations.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go, etc.).
• Proven hands‑on experience securing global hybrid architectures from both a computer and network infrastructure perspective.
• Proven hands‑on experience with application security topics such as the OWASP top 10 and technical remediations required.
• Detailed technical experience supporting and implementing SIEM & logging tools and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from large volume aggregated log storage.
• Thorough understanding of network and compute architectures and, specifically, the security aspects thereof.
• Thorough understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and reviews.

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