Senior Cyber Security Architect

Sr. Cyber Security Architect

Location: Tulsa, OK, US

Duration: 6 Months

Primary Purpose of Job: This position is responsible for defining enterprise-wide architectures, planning for and directing large-scale integration efforts, and setting network and unified communications technology standards and guidelines. The position provides technical leadership for IT staff. This role will develop and maintain high-level design and plans for the overall logical and technical architecture. This role will gain organization commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans and roadmaps, initiate and steward projects to evaluate, implement and deprecate technologies according to those plans.

Major functions:

Solutions Architecture 50% of total job

• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Partners with other architects to provide scalable and adaptable architectural solutions.
• Design and provides enterprise grade architectural plans for systems, products and projects.
• Develops and maintains policies, standards, reference architectures and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
• Research and lead adoption of high value retail and technology industry trends & emerging technology.
• Serves as a technical expert in multiple technologies.

Strategic Planning 20% of total job

• Work with business leaders to create business cases that add positive value for the organization
• Collaborate in the creation of the departmental budget by estimating future work annually.
• Research and document strategic plans to help move IT process and technology forward.
• Assist in the creation and implementation of the IT Strategic Plan annually.

Product and Project Stewardship 15% of total job

• Provide guidance in projects as the architectural steward.
• Create and/or assign reference architecture for engineering and development
• Ensure solutions meet architecture guidelines.
• Responsible for documented deliverables.
• Provide technical expertise and advice as needed.
• Fulfill the role of Product owner when assigned.

Leadership 10% of total job

• Mentor other technical resources in the company to help grow their technical skillsets.
• Find opportunities and work with managers to give to others to facilitate their growth.

Service Management - 5% of total job

• Assist in resolution of incident or problems in the IT Dept.
• Review, approve and give guidance on changes generated from change management weekly.
• Review Incident trends and establish problem records to prevent incidents from happening and minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented.

Position Specifications

Required Education: Bachelor s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications or a related field or 5 years of professional experience in an architectural capacity.

Desired Education: Certification in VMware, Cisco Data Center, Cisco Route/Switch. Information Systems Security Professional/Manager (CISSP/CISSM), or equivalent. ITIL Foundation Certification and Project management.

Required Experience:

• 10 years of proven experience with local and wide-area networks, system design, virtualization technologies, storage area networking, cyber security technologies, strategic planning, budgeting, business requirements gathering and information security practices.
• 5 years of leading design and architecture of technology solutions. Must possess a thorough working knowledge of Microsoft, VMware, Palo Alto, Cisco, Citrix and NetApp solutions. Thorough understanding of infrastructure services and concepts including compute, storage, network, and security across multiple knowledge domains. Applied process knowledge including Project Management, ITSM, and ITIL. Experience troubleshooting complex problems.