Cybersecurity Principal Architect

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the planning, creation, and management of security architecture deliverables, including but not limited to requirements, solution designs, patterns, building blocks, target architectures, policies, standards, and guidance for all applicable platforms and environments to influence CCS, Enterprise Technology, and line of business decision making.
Acts as thought leader in new technology innovation, incubation, introduction and implementation critical to the CCS roadmap and Client’s success. Build roadmap for acquiring, integrating, and implementing high-value technology and processes. Oversee efforts (e.g. proof of concepts) to measure and prove new technology value.
Lead development of system security context and preliminary system security concept of operations and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable regulations and standards.
Create and maintain system security context and preliminary system security concept of operations and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable regulations and standards.
Ensure that all acquired or developed security systems and security architectures integrate with enterprise security architecture.
Establish strong relationships with key technology stakeholders and create convergence by demonstrating credibility, empathy and expertise on business and technical issues. Facilitate, communicate, collaborate, and persuade others in the definition, adoption and implementation of a coherent architecture.
Evaluate existing or emerging technologies to consider factors such as cost, security, compatibility and usability and ensure security product lifecycles are managed proactively.
Demonstrate comprehensive experience and skill in Information Security (InfoSec) and cyber security technology and practices necessary to negotiate and persuade technology direction on security principals and tenets such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and non-repudiation.
Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture and develop security risk management plans.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

Key Skills: Encryption
Incident response
Denial of service
Firewall technologies and intrusion
Cloud technologies and hosting;
Operating system hardening;
Virtualization technologies;
Mobile technologies;
Encryption, tokenization, and key management technologies;
Endpoint Protection (includes malware);
Data Loss Protection (DLP) technologies;
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS-related field, or equivalent education and related training
Twelve years of progressively responsible leadership experience in Information/Cyber Security
Comprehensive experience in application security architecture, including design tools, methods, and techniques and the application of defense-in-depth principles; knowledge of network design processes, including understanding of security objectives, operational objectives and tradeoffs
Experience creating architecture deliverables such as to requirements, solution designs, models, patterns, building blocks, sequence diagrams, and target architectures.
Several common technology stacks (i.e. AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, distributed, and/or mainframe) and how to secure them, including access control, data protection, monitoring, and integration with other technologies
Authentication and authorization technologies including privileged access management and remote access;
Application security, the security development lifecycle, and ability to apply to client-server and web-based application development environments;
Enterprise databases and database security, including database activity monitoring and atabase access control technologies;
Encryption methods and technologies for data-in-transit and data-at-rest scenarios.
Data Loss Protection (DLP) technologies.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability desired.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
At least one major cybersecurity certification such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, and/or GIAC certifications.
Azure, AWS, and/or Kubernetes certifications.
Thorough knowledge of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or similar architecture framework, including infrastructure, data, information security, applications, architectural concepts, and associated disciplines.
Experience in the financial services industry or another highly regulated industry.