Security Architect- Expert

Overview

Imagine being at the forefront of securing a leading financial services organization, where your expertise directly translates into protecting critical assets and enabling innovative growth. Aquent is partnering with a dynamic institution that is building a centralized Cybersecurity Services team, a true center of excellence dedicated to advancing security posture. As a Security Architect, you won’t just design; you’ll be a pivotal force, crafting resilient security solutions and strategies that safeguard data integrity, availability, and confidentiality across a global landscape.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to join a Security Design team that shapes the organization’s security strategy and architecture vision. You will drive and synchronize security strategies aligned with technology and business priorities, validating future directions through cutting-edge security research and innovation. Your contributions will directly influence security decision-making, ensuring the highest levels of integrity and protection for all entrusted data.

**What You’ll Do:**

As a Security Architect, you will be instrumental in designing, documenting, and deploying secure solutions globally, enhancing and evolving the security posture of the firm. You will closely partner and collaborate with other engineering teams, providing essential security solutions, designs, architecture guidance, reviews, and support. Your day-to-day will involve:

* Leading secure design reviews and overseeing the implementation of on-premises and cloud security controls for numerous internal and external business IT projects and applications, directly contributing to revenue growth.
* Collaborating with Domain Architects and Product Managers to define robust security requirements and establish secure deployment patterns for diverse solutions.
* Articulating solution intent and operating environments, identifying primary systems/subsystems, their interfaces, and defining non-functional requirements and architectural runways for new features and opportunities.
* Conducting thorough reviews, assessments, and sign-offs on projects, evaluating risk and ensuring strict adherence to security policies, standards, and industry best practices.
* Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by engaging with stakeholders, evaluating strategic design decisions, and working with vendors/service providers.
* Contributing to the development of best practices, standard templates, and the architectural roadmap for various security domains.
* Translating business, technology, and threat drivers into practical security capabilities across the organization.
* Clarifying architectural details for development teams to facilitate implementation and offering solution options to overcome architectural impediments.
* Performing comprehensive design reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements, including security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability, are sufficiently met.
* Engaging with other security architects and practitioners to foster knowledge sharing and propagate best practices.

**What You Bring:**

* **Education:** A 4-year college/university degree is required.
* **Experience:** Minimum of 10+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing security infrastructure or solutions.
* **Domain Expertise:** Strong multiple domain experience with broad knowledge of security foundations.
* **Authentication:** In-depth knowledge of customer authentication processes for digital and voice platforms.
* **Risk Management:** Detailed understanding of security domains, including the ability to document risks, evaluate remediation options, and present findings to technical and executive leadership.
* **Adaptability:** Demonstrated flexibility and resilience in rapidly changing situations, effectively collaborating with diverse individuals and groups.
* **Architectural Acumen:** Proven experience with security architecture reviews and implementing security controls across Identity and Access Management (IAM), Data Protection, Application Security, Network Security, and Security Analytics.
* **Secure Design:** Expertise in delivering secure designs aligned with security requirements and reference architectures.

**Nice-to-Haves:**

* **Emerging Technologies:** Experience with AI security.
* **Cloud Security:** Experience in the assessment, development, implementation, integration, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive set of security technologies and processes in on-premise, public, and private cloud environments.
* **Framework Knowledge:** Strong knowledge of enterprise security concepts/frameworks and products, secure design principles, and best practices, including NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27000 series, and COBIT.
* **Certifications:** CISSP or CSSLP certification preferred. Other Information Security-oriented certifications are a plus.

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**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.