Zero Trust Architect

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At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

In Schwab Cybersecurity Services (SCS), Office of CISO, we provide platforms, services, and security operations capabilities which enable the firm to produce successful client and shareholder outcomes securely and safely. Securing our IT assets, data, and access to applications is the core of who we are and what we do. We ensure only the appropriate entities have access to IT resources and that we adhere to best practices and standards to ensure a safe and compliant environment is maintained.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

The Zero Trust Architect is an individual contributor supporting the Firm’s Network
security and Zero Trust strategy including domain security architecture vision and development. This position will drive and synchronize security strategies aligned with technology and business priorities along with validating future directions as it relates to zero trust and various network security technologies. This role works with various Schwab technology and security teams on the architectural, engineering, and implementation of technology solutions and methodologies to ensure visibility, secure connectivity, and service availability.

In this role, the Zero Trust Architect will have responsibility for identifying, defining, developing, leading security technology strategy across a broad portfolio of security and related technology systems, and the assessment of new and emerging security technologies at the very large enterprise scale. To include the road mapping and security architecture design to guide engineering implementing, and maintaining network security capabilities including segmentation, zero trust, network and platform resiliency, enhanced network visibility and implementation of solutions to address security control gaps.

Collaborating with product and project teams to understand needs and enablement with security products.

As a senior member of Schwab Cybersecurity Services (SCS), you will engage and partner with senior leaders across the organization leveraging your extensive background in (managing / delivering / implementing / architecting) various security technologies, combined with expertise in organizational and cross-functional communication, influence roadmaps, solution adoption, champion strategic opportunities / execution plans with the aim to improve security capabilities, reduce risk, and position forward looking platform security enhancements.

• Responsible for defining an architectural vision for Zero Trust and architecture for large complex solutions, which aligns with the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices
• Ensures the solution is fit for purpose and use by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers, and evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions
• Contributes to best practices, guidelines, standard templates, and the architecture roadmap for defined domains.
• Creates security reference architecture patterns for reusability.
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data and Technology) in support of the product roadmap
• Partner with Schwab counterparts to implement designs and technologies that reduce network security deficiencies and deliver on the network strategy.
• Translate/engineer architectural requirements and high-level design into a deployable and manageable implementation.
• Develop technical solutions to ensure 3rd party partners connect to us in a way that protects our systems and client data.
• Participate in development, implementation of security design & engineering principles and standards and build a…