Sr Cybersecurity Architect

Job Description

Job Description

SENIOR CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECT - REMOTE

ARC Group has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Cybersecurity Architect! This position is 100% remote working eastern time zone business hours. This is starting out as a contract position running through March 2025 with strong potential to extend longer or convert to FTE. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

At ARC Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We believe that diverse perspectives lead to better innovation and problem-solving. As an organization, we embrace diversity in all its forms and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.

100% REMOTE!

Candidates must currently have PERMANENT US work authorization. Sorry, but we are not considering any candidates from outside companies for this position (no C2C, 3rd party / brokering).

Essential Functions:

• Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.
• Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms. Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
• Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
• Participates in security governance processes.
• Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
• Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
• Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
• Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
• Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
• Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
• Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.
• Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents.
• Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.
• Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
• Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.
• Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
• Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Health care industry related experience is preferred
• Information Security certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM)
• Experience using Agile methodology
• Extensive experience with IT Infrastructure Services components and how to enable the business while at the same time providing the appropriate level of Security controls
• Experience with Network Security principles, such as Firewalls, perimeter defenses, load balancers, proxy servers
• Experience with End-Point, Remote Access, Network Systems Management, Messaging & Collaboration, and Logging & Monitoring Security solutions
• Big Data architectures such as Hortonworks suite of products: Hadoop, Kafka, Redis, and Object Storage principles
• "AWS"" and Microsoft Azure deployment, Security, Network, and Operational architectures and solutions
• Identity and Access Management IAM concepts and principles such as federation, delegated access (user managed access UMA), single sign on, OAuth, and OpenID.
• Securing Digital Engagement models such as mobile, IOT, wearables, etc.
• Security engineering for API gateways, REST Web Services, JSON Web Tokens JWT, SOAP
• Knowledge of CMS ARS controls and ability to design security controls to support control objectives

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years cloud security experience
• IAM experience with employee and consumer identity security
• Experience securing APIs
• Health care industry related experience is preferred
• Additional Information Security certifications (CISM, CISA, etc) preferred
• Experience using Agile methodology
  

Required Work Experience
5+ years related work experience (work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT projects)

Required Education
Related Bachelors degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field or equivalent work experience

Required Licenses and Certifications
CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof (within 180 Days if converted to FTE)

Would you like to know more about our new opportunity? For immediate consideration, please apply online and view all our open positions at

ARC Group is a Forbes-ranked a top 20 recruiting and executive search firm working with clients nationwide to recruit the highest quality technical resources. We have achieved this by understanding both our candidate's and client's needs and goals and serving both with integrity and a shared desire to succeed.

At ARC Group, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Position is offered with no fee to candidate.