- Company Name
- Elevance Health
- Job Title
- Enterprise Principal Security Architect
- Job Description
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Job Title: Enterprise Principal Security Architect
Role Summary:
Lead the organization’s enterprise security architecture program, setting strategy, developing security-by-design standards, and governing secure implementation across hybrid cloud environments. Drive architecture for AI/ML, Zero Trust, cloud-native platforms, and secure SDLC/MDLC, while ensuring audit‑defensible delivery and executive alignment.
Expactations:
- Provide decisive architectural direction for complex initiatives, reducing risk and improving delivery velocity.
- Translate security trade‑offs into clear business impact for leadership.
- Build and maintain enterprise‑level reference architectures, patterns, and roadmaps that meet regulatory, audit, and governance requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the enterprise security architecture vision for AI‑enabled, zero‑trust, cloud‑first platforms, defining principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
- Define Zero Trust patterns aligned to NIST SP 800‑207 and CISA models; maintain compliance with NIST AI RMF 1.0 for GenAI guardrails.
- Create secure‑by‑default cloud reference architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, OCISO, and other stakeholders to operationalize governance through assessment methods, reviews, and enforcement mechanisms.
- Chair the Security Architecture Review Board (SARB), setting intake processes, review criteria, decision records, exception handling, and executive escalation.
- Produce executive‑ready briefing materials that communicate security architecture decisions, risks, and benefits.
- Recommend and champion new technologies based on business value and ROI, steering them toward implementation.
- Maintain enterprise blueprints, coordinate conceptual architecture components, monitor reuse, and guide system migration roadmaps.
- Provide continuous consulting and direction for projects and architectures, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and strategic vision.
Required Skills:
- Strategic security architecture leadership for hybrid cloud and modern platforms.
- Deep expertise in Zero Trust, cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes, service mesh), and secure SDLC/MDLC.
- Knowledge of AI/ML security, GenAI risk management, and NIST AI RMF.
- Strong governance, standards, and policy development skills aligned with NIST and CISA frameworks.
- Experience chairing or leading Architecture Review Boards and conducting enterprise‑wide architecture assessments.
- Excellent written and oral communication for executive stakeholders and audit teams.
- Ability to translate technical decisions into business impact and ROI.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Systems Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent security architecture certification.
- TOGAF or related enterprise architecture certification.
- Cloud‑specific security certifications: AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
- Additional certifications in container security (CCKr, CKA), and Zero Trust/AI security frameworks preferred.
Grand prairie, United states
Hybrid
Senior
02-02-2026