Senior Cybersecurity Architect

Job Description:
Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity Architect to join their team. This full-time, onsite position is based in Tulsa, OK, USA. The primary purpose of this role is to define enterprise-wide architectures, lead large-scale integration efforts, and set technology standards and guidelines across network and unified communications domains. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership for IT staff, develop high-level design plans, and ensure the implementation of these plans aligns with strategic business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and technology subject-matter experts to translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Collaborate with other architects to deliver scalable and adaptable architectural solutions.
• Design and provide enterprise-grade architectural plans for systems, products, and projects.
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, reference architectures, and guidelines to ensure a consistent framework is applied across the company.
• Research and lead the adoption of high-value retail and technology industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Serve as a technical expert across multiple technology domains.
• Provide guidance in projects as the architectural steward, ensuring solutions meet architecture guidelines and documented deliverables are maintained.
• Review, approve, and provide guidance on changes generated from change management processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 10 years of proven experience with local and wide-area networks, system design, virtualization technologies, and information security practices.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading the design and architecture of technology solutions.
• Strong 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.
• Excellent diagnostic, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, capable of solving problems independently and quickly.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with the ability to influence adoption and change.
• Desired certifications: VMware, Cisco Data Center, Cisco Route/Switch, CISSP/CISSM, ITIL Foundation Certification, and Project Management.

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hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence,
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