Senior Information Security Architect Job Description

Senior Information Security Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Senior Information Security Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform other duties as assigned by management;
  • Acts as Subject Matter Expert and provide third-level support and analysis during and after security events;
  • Provides mentoring and technical leadership to the Information Security team;
  • Develops Security architecture strategies for NASCO in the form of standards, frameworks and guidelines, with the emphasis on Infrastructure security.

Requirements:

  • Ability to resolve business security conflicts taking into consideration policy, risk and business needs;
  • At least 3 years of experience performing network and application security penetration testing and/or threat assessments;
  • Understanding of HITRUST or similar framework, such as ISO, COBIT, COSO, NIST;
  • Advanced written and verbal communication skills;
  • Working knowledge of technologies such as operating systems, directory services and network protocols;
  • Minimum 10 years of IT infrastructure architecture and/or operations experience;
  • Minimum 4 -5 years of experience in Large Scale System design (ERP, Custom, etc) and implementation;
  • Knowledge of database applications, spread sheet design, and report writing software;
  • Ability to perform trade-off and risk analysis and, if necessary, process and manage exceptions to achieve business needs;
  • Minimum 5 – 8 years of experience in enterprise security architecture role.