The Principal Security Architect role is accountable for driving security initiatives for the organization. Under limited supervisions, the candidate will work with a wide variety of business stakeholders and IT professionals (including Enterprise Architecture, Technology Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering teams) to ensure organizational security needs/controls are aligned to support business goals and objectives.
You will be responsible for:- Define security functional requirements and non-functional requirements to meet the business objectives of a solution
- Work with stakeholders in setting the technical direction, selecting and evaluating candidate solutions
- Work with stakeholders to design and document the conceptual and detailed designs of the solutions
- Act as a subject matter expert for advisory, review and approval of security designs, configurations, baselines, and technical standards
- Assess effectiveness of security controls i.e. data protection, IAM, detective controls, infrastructure/network security, incident response. Work on identifying and driving implementation of appropriate controls, processes, and remediation of non-compliance
- Assist in research, design, and advocating new technologies, architectures, and security products that will support security maturity strategy
- Ten plus years IT experience with six plus years focused on security and solution architecture
- Experience with cloud delivery platforms IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft
- Demonstrated experience running an enterprise wide initiative and understanding of all domains of security. Ability to engage with senior leaders to define requirements and implement technology solutions that add value and reduce risk
- Strong communicator (written and verbal) and listener
- Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in a technical discipline is preferred
- CISSP (or equivalent) preferred
- AWS/Azure certifications in solutioning and security preferred
