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POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the CIO, the head of information security architecture and engineering provides overall direction, guidance, definition, and design of the company’s enterprise-wide security architecture and engineering to effectively support security, technology, and business strategy and to meet specific business technology needs.
This role will also lead initiatives covering foundational security architecture, security technical debt, innovation/future proofing and supporting the end-to-end security roadmap. You will take a lead role in the continued innovation of the company’s Cyber Security strategy, and you will also be responsible for leading a premier engineering team that develops, operates and supports a heterogeneous security infrastructure on a global scale. You will build and lead the Cyber Security Architecture and Engineering program and lead a team of high performing architects and engineers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead a team of cross-functional security architects and security engineers to design and implement highly reliable, scalable, extensible, maintainable and operable products and platforms.
- Develop enterprise-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant security friction points.
- Identify and lead the resolution of highly complex technical problems, lead architecture design that is scalable and adherence to architectural standards.
- Analyze technology, industry, and market trends and determine potential impacts to and opportunities for the enterprise.
- Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to develop enterprise security architecture requirements.
- Work closely with product management and development teams to define the next generation of digital, enterprise, cloud, and data systems.
- Serve as an expert resource to IT and business leaders in the development of security solutions to meet business needs.
- Ensure that the enterprise is making the best use of the latest security technologies to improve performance.
- Manage day-to-day tasks and have in-depth involvement to allow for early identification of potential challenges.
- Coordinate a balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architectures within IT and business units to successfully implement security architecture solutions.
- Enforce adherence to security architecture standards.
- Be the security architecture point person for identified major initiatives (most valued, most complex) with accountability for architecture designs.
- Ensure enterprise security solutions are scalable and adaptable according to changing business needs.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years demonstrated experience managing complex cross functional units or groups within information security
- 10+ years of work experience in security architecture and system development
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing cross-functional teams or projects and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
- Expertise in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise application and security architecture, specifically including Cloud Security Architecture (GCP, Microsoft Azure and AWS)
- Executive-level experience leading a team of security engineering professionals responsible for planning, design, implementation and ongoing support of security systems of high complexity to fulfill the business needs.
- Expertise in strategic planning and in documenting architecture deliverables (target architecture, security policies, IT principles & reference architecture, technology standards, conceptual patterns, detailed design patterns, etc.).
- Experience working as an architect within an IT organization, with demonstrated understanding and application of architecture methodology and principles to enable business change or capability building
- Experience with AWS security services to include AWS Security Center, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, AWS Inspector, Lambda, and AWS Systems Manager
- Working knowledge of NIDS & HIDS and WAF solutions in AWS and GCP
- Identity Management experience in the following areas: Single Sign-On, Identity Federation, Consumer Identity, and Multi-Factor Authentication, Identity Governance and Administration, User Provisioning, Access Certification, Identity Analytics, Role-Based Access Control
- Strong understanding of Data Protection including DLP and DRM; threat intelligence, fraud protection and endpoint security
- Proven track record of leading large, complex projects with multiple stakeholders and driving organizational change
- Demonstrated success with meeting the needs of a wide range of employees while driving team performance, monitoring results and appropriately allocating resources
- Progressive experience in leading employees in multiple locations, and significant experience developing and implementing solutions
- Possesses strong problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
- Strong leadership skills, leading by example, driving employee commitment through actions, and empowering employees to reach their full potential
- Experience working with a suite of IT applications, including: transactional, middleware integration, workflow, business intelligence (BI), web-based, and relational database technologies (design and function)
- Recognized enterprise architecture related certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, COBIT)
