Security Architect
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Company Description
Archer IT is a NYC based recruiting firm and trusted adviser to leading companies in the financial services, investment banking, fintech, and media industries across North America. Our client, has a current position available for a Security Architect in Raleigh, NC.
Job Description
As a Security Architect, you will join a team charged with ensuring a leading investment bank can identify, defend and respond against both internal and external cyber security threats. The role is part of a small but diverse team of architects spread across the globe. As an Architect your key responsibilities will include:
- Working with Cyber Security Product Management, Engineering, and Operations team to understand business requirements, levels of demand and impact on technical architecture
- Working with the stakeholders to assess implications of architecture decisions for both new and existing capabilities
- Designing the low-level, technical capability architecture for new and modified capabilities and ensuring that the design can deliver to defined business requirements
- Defining and prioritizing investment required to deliver the capability architecture
- Developing and managing lifecycle, roadmaps and reference architecture for the capability
- Ensuring adherence to GCTO architectural standards, principles and policies
- Publishing capability upgrade and maintenance plans
- Providing input into the capability development and optimization
- Acting as a subject matter expert for all capability architecture related discussions and issues
- Developing relationships with 3rd party suppliers when necessary
Your goals will include:
- Supporting the Capability Owner in developing low level technical architecture to support the capability roadmap
- Understanding demand for the capability from service owners
- Ensuring adherence to architecture standards
- Aligning the capability roadmap with changing service roadmaps
Qualifications
Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
- Ability to transform functional requirements into detailed technical specifications
- Strong experience in business analysis, IT planning and design
- Extensive experience in a security engineering or architecture roles
- Deep knowledge of enterprise-scale security systems and architectures
- A strong understanding of current technology trends and competitive forces
- Ability to develop custom technical component integration plans
- Advanced Linux or Windows experience
- A degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline and at least 5 years of relevant experience or a high-school diploma and at least 10 years of relevant experience
- Extensive experience in planning and designing solutions using APIs, workflow orchestration and automation
- Develops strong customer, peer and senior relationships globally
- Ability to effectively communicate with and influence senior stakeholders
- Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to business users / customers
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
- Clear understanding of information security, backed by a depth and breadth of supporting technical knowledge, especially in the field of Cyber Security
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Extensive experience across all phases of the service delivery lifecycle
- Experience of application of Agile/DevOps methodologies
- Experience with tools such as Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) and configuration management systems such as Chef, Puppet, BOSH
Additional Information
This is a contract position.
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