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Job Title: Security Architect
Location: Phoenix, AZ or Dallas, TX – onsite
Responsibilities:
- Develops and maintains a security architecture framework & process that enables the bank to develop and implement security capabilities and solutions that are clearly aligned with business, technology, and current & emerging threat drivers.
- Author and develop architecture artifacts such as standards, patterns, & architecture designs that can be leveraged in governance processes and align to enterprise security posture.
- Tracks developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that they’re adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts.
- Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Develops perspectives and points of view on ‘buy vs. build’ offerings from various solution providers to develop differentiated solutions that support business growth plans.
- Participates in M&A efforts to assess use of security capabilities & develops integration approaches to integrate the acquisition into our security framework(s).
- Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
- Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of related experience, with 5+ years security architecture efforts and an expert level security specific certification such as CISSP.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information-technology, cybersecurity, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience. Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of ten years of experience working in an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions.
- Broad understanding of all security domains (e.g. I&AM, Network, End User Compute, Application, Platform, Data etc) with knowledge & experience depth in 1 or 2 of those domains.
- Experience designing security controls for the deployment of applications and infrastructure in to public cloud services.
- Deep understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
- Deep understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile and DevOps teams by providing advice and guidance on delivery opportunities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to develop content for & communicate with Architecture Leader Level stakeholders as well as Engineering & Scrum teams.
- Ability to build trust and respect as a change agent who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and development teams.
- Objective mindset that is able to think ‘enterprise first’ and remain unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, with decisions made based on data, analysis, & POC results.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and be a team player
- Experience with Azure, AWS and on-prem platforms.
- Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages (e.g. ArchiMate).
- Experience delivering & operating in the Banking industry.
- Security Architect Level Certification