Role Summary
The Security Architect collaborates extensively with architecture, development, product, and additional teams across the organization to embed security considerations throughout the solution lifecycle, from initial design to final deployment. This role will be responsible for defining security requirements, performing security design assessments, and providing teams with remediation and mitigation guidance and advice. Security Architects engage on strategic initiatives, programs, and projects throughout the enterprise including cloud, AI/ML, etc. This is the “force multiplier” role to help unblock teams and drive consistent adoption of standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead design reviews for applications, platform, network, and cloud solutions; identify risks and recommend mitigations aligned to security best practices and internal security requirements.
- Maintain and expand the security architecture documentation library, ensuring consistency across requirements documents, frameworks components and design artifacts.
- Work directly with program and project teams to ensure that relevant security risks are identified, evaluated, and appropriate security solutions are implemented to manage risks to the enterprise.
- Responsible for the identification of architectural gaps and inefficiencies in new and existing solutions; support remediation and mitigation efforts through appropriate planning and roadmap development.
- Strong work ethic and sense of urgency.
- Ability to influence technical discussions and decisions.
- Mentor others in security best practices and architectural approaches.
Skills
<>Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Security life cycle, design review across concept, development through deployment.
- Experience with threat models (all 7 layers), security analysis.
- GIAC GDSA, SABSA or equivalent; AI related certs a plus.
- Cloud security certs (AWS/Azure/OCI/ CCSP) helpful.
<>Core Competencies
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally; influence cross-functional teams and executives; execute autonomously and manage time effectively.
- Produce consumable technical docs (security requirement documents, security design patterns, reference architectures) and present recommendations to diverse audiences.
- Problem solving and influencing skills and ability to drive architecture into product groups and suppliers.
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
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