Manager Security Architect

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Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. .

We are looking for a seasoned Security Architect to develop and maintain the enterprise security reference architecture for Ahold Delhaize. In this role you are responsible for the security technology landscape overview and advising our IT and business partners on security requirements.

Your team and office

You will work closely with our Head of Cyber Strategy, innovation & Architecture to define the security strategy. You coordinate the yearly Group Cyber Security Office roadmap development and risk based priority setting process as part of the yearly budget cycle, collaborating closely with domain architects. Moreover, you work closely with Group Architecture, Brands and OpCos to ensure alignment with the latest business and IT strategy and priorities. Finally, you advise teams on security requirements and technology and vendor selection.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 16 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As a Security Architect, you will be joining our Group Cyber Security department. Your colleagues will be working from both the USA and the Netherlands.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas.

The Group Cyber Security team is one of the few global teams with associates across all locations where Ahold Delhaize operates. You will work in an international environment with many diverse cultures and backgrounds. We have a vast and diverse IT landscape including traditional on-premises datacenters, OT environments and modern cloud workloads. Transitioning towards a Zero Trust based architecture is our goal and we need a strong Security Architecture team to make this happen! Additionally, you will conduct regular security assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and areas for improvement. Your proactive approach will involve staying updated with the latest cybersecurity trends and threats, ensuring that our defenses remain robust and adaptive. We are looking for someone who can connect and engage easily as you will be working closely with other IT departments to make sure that our security principles are well aligned. We will continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and with various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

1. Security Strategy, Roadmap and Budget Cycle: Contribute to define the security architecture roadmap and the execution. You work with the domain architects to ensure the input for the roadmap from each domain is in line with the enterprise security reference architecture and security strategy. You are responsible for defining our roadmap and assist in the budget cycle. You will work closely with our Lead Security Architect to define strategy, align with our Group Cyber Security Office, Group Architecture and Opco’s.

2. Enterprise Security Reference Architecture: You define and maintain enterprise security reference architectures, models, and principles, in line with IT enterprise architecture, security strategy and new technology and regulatory developments. You translate and maintain enterprise and IT strategy and technology innovations into requirements for the enterprise security reference architecture by using models and principles. You have a keen interest in staying up to date with all the newest updates and

trends in the field of security. You conduct regular assessments of the security reference architecture and use the results as input to update reference architectures and to identify (new) risks and threats.

3. Security Technology Landscape: You will develop and update an overview of our security technology and vendor landscape and support in vendor selection and setting requirements.

4. Stakeholder Management: You will work with other Architecture teams to understand the IT and business strategies and collaborate with IT and business teams to advise on the enterprise security reference architecture and security requirement setting for new solutions.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

You will be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Master's degree in IT related field.
• 8-10 years of hands-on work experience within large corporate IT environments and projects.
• Have experience with security strategy development and execution within a large enterprise.
• Are highly knowledgeable with enterprise security reference architectures, models, and principles.
• Able to set and manage budgets.
• Deep understanding of security technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Deep understanding of security technology and vendor selection processes.
• Strong knowledge of security risk management practices.
• Ability to translate business priorities into effective security solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Last, but not least: strong stakeholder management skills.

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Are you keen to join our Security Architecture team? Even if you don’t tick all (but do tick most )the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. now via the button on this page.

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The GSO sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.

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Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.