- Company Name
- Aquent
- Job Title
- Senior Security Architect - Expert Level
- Job Description
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Job Title: Senior Security Architect – Expert Level
Role Summary:
Architect, implement, and oversee secure solutions across on‑premises and cloud environments for a large financial services organization. Lead design reviews, define security requirements, and shape the enterprise security strategy to protect data integrity, availability, and confidentiality at scale.
Expectations:
- Deliver a cohesive, enterprise‑wide security architecture that aligns with business goals and regulatory mandates.
- Influence security policy, standards, and roadmap to reduce risk and enable secure digital transformation.
- Provide expert guidance to engineering, product, and vendor teams, ensuring all solutions meet security, performance, and reliability objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead secure design reviews and approve implementation of security controls for all internal and external IT projects.
- Collaborate with architecture and product leaders to establish robust security requirements and deployment patterns.
- Define solution intent, operating environments, interfaces, and non‑functional requirements for new features.
- Review projects for compliance with security policies, standards, and industry best practices; sign off on designs.
- Engage stakeholders, vendors, and service providers to ensure solutions are fit‑for‑purpose and aligned with business needs.
- Contribute to best‑practice templates, standard frameworks, and the architectural roadmap across security domains.
- Translate business, technology, and threat drivers into actionable security capabilities.
- Clarify architectural designs for development teams and provide solutions to overcome impediments.
- Perform comprehensive design reviews covering security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability.
- Foster knowledge sharing and continuous improvement among security architects and practitioners.
Required Skills:
- Deep expertise in security architecture, design patterns, and secure deployment across IAM, data protection, application security, network security, and security analytics.
- Strong risk assessment, remediation planning, and presentation to technical and executive audiences.
- Experience with on‑prem, public, and private cloud security technologies.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and collaborative problem‑solving.
- Advanced proficiency in security frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800), reference architectures, and enterprise security concepts.
Nice‑to‑Have Skills:
- AI/ML security experience.
- Proven design and implementation of comprehensive security technology suites in hybrid cloud environments.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and managing enterprise‑scale security solutions.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, or equivalent highly preferred.