Senior Enterprise Security Architect

A financial firm is looking for a Senior Enterprise Security Architect to join their team in Iselin, NJ.

Compensation: $180-220k

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the enterprise security architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization's business objectives, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements
• Establish security architecture standards, frameworks, and best practices, ensuring they are consistently applied across the enterprise
• Ensure that security architecture designs are scalable, flexible, and future-proof to accommodate changing business needs and evolving threat landscapes
• Champion security across multiple divisions, ensuring security is embedded into the design and implementation of products, services, and technology solutions
• Provide leadership and guidance on security risks, policies, and controls to senior management and stakeholders, influencing key business decisions
• Provide expert-level security architecture design, analysis, and consultation to enterprise-wide programs, ensuring security risks are appropriately mitigated during the planning and design stages
• Manage a team of security architects, ensuring they have the necessary skills, knowledge, and resources to effectively design and implement security solutions.
• Collaborate with technology teams, including Infrastructure, Cloud, Development, and Security, to embed security into solutions from the outset
• Oversee assessments of new technologies, vendors, and third-party services to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and reduce potential risk exposure
• Lead project and program managers to ensure the integration of security architecture across various initiatives, with a focus on scalability, compliance, and risk management
• Define, monitor, and enforce security architecture governance processes to ensure that security standards and controls are met across the enterprise

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity or equivalent
• 10 years of experience in information security architecture
• 3-5 years in a leadership role
• Experience designing and implementing security architectures across complex enterprise environments, including cloud, infrastructure, and application security
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and security standards
• Experience working with senior leadership and stakeholders to drive strategic security initiatives, influencing decisions at the enterprise level
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, SABSA, etc.
• Expertise in risk management frameworks, including ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, and SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls
• Experience with cloud security solutions and services