Systems Architect

Description

• The Senior Architect for Security plays a key role in shaping the security of technology strategy by defining, enhancing, and implementing information security architecture.
• This role will apply expertise in architectural framework and design modelling, strategic planning and roadmap development, and technology analysis in order to provide a secure experience for Customers and protect critical assets from threats in the mobile and enterprise ecosystems.
• This role will seek to understand how people, processes, technology and security interact to perform the fundamental activities of the business in both current and future states, and model these interactions to guide security technology strategy in order to better achieve the strategic goals and objectives of the business.
• Work cross-functionally to understand the linkage between business goals, business architectures, technology and security architectures, and strive to further business goals via evolution of architectures.
• Drive the evolution of security infrastructure, processes, products, and services by influencing decision makers.
• Compile, deliver, and evangelize end-to-end technology and security roadmaps that guide the evolution of security infrastructure, products, and services by applying depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines.

• Responsible for building effective working relationships, making sound decisions, successfully making changes, initiating action and achieving results.
• Compile, develop, deliver, and evangelize end-to-end technology and security roadmaps that guide the evolution of security services, practices, products, and infrastructure by applying depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines.
• Compile, develop, deliver, and evangelize security reference architectures and best practices that address critical security challenges and provide commercially responsible security guardrails for technology.
• Influence stakeholders and ensure alignment with security strategy and architecture principles by driving collaboration across the enterprise's technology architecture functions, the inclusion of security strategy roadmaps into enterprise technology roadmaps, and the adoption of security reference architectures and best practices.
• Mentor team members on information assurance and security best practices in area of expertise.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple security domains to guide technology and security strategy and communicate big-picture enterprise-wide security issues to team and decision makers
• Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.

• Knowledge of information security architecture concepts, principles, methods, and components.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of and experience implementing Information Assurance principles and organizational requirements relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation.
• Working knowledge of IT architectural concepts and frameworks.
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with foundational technology concepts.
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with security objectives, operational objectives, and tradeoffs associated with the network design process.
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with network access, identity and access management, and access authentication methods.
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with network protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Knowledge of cryptology and encryption algorithms (eg, IPSEC, AES, GRE, IKE, MD5, SHA, 3DES).
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with the implementation of data security standards/guidance and regulatory/contractual information security requirements.
• Knowledge of the telecommunications industry and associated technologies

• Risk management processes, including steps and methods for assessing risk,
• Secure configuration mgmt. techniques,
• Security test and evaluation processes,
• Secure system design tools, methods, and techniques
• Secure software engineering/development principles and methods.

• 7 years of technical solutions experience in a combination of relevant security domains.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of and experience implementing information security architecture concepts, principles, methods, and components.
• Working experience as participant for security development activities supporting standards bodies and industry associations such as IEEE, GSMA, 3GPP, and CTIA.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of and experience in determining how a security system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes
• Knowledge of private/public/hybrid cloud computing and storage, Data Center Virtualization solutions, and Big Data solutions.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of and experience in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions and applying and incorporating IT technologies into proposed solutions
• Knowledge of public key infrastructure, HSMs, OAuth 2.0, SAML, federated identity management, and multi-factor authentication.
• Certifications CISSP, CCSK, CRISC, CISA,
• Bachelors Science IA, CS, EE, CE