Security architect

Location:

4910 Tiedeman Road - Brooklyn, Ohio 44144

Senior Security Architect
Job Posting for Senior Security Architect
Job Code: 105187 Job Grade: 84
Job Profile Summary
Candidate will use skills, experience and talent to help Key grow an effective information security program by analyzing, assessing, and helping mitigate security issues. Plan, research, and design security architecture for IT systems. Develop, review, and approve installation requirements for application and infrastructure designs and implementations.

Applicant must be able to demonstrate the ability to:
Incorporate security requirements necessary to protect the organization’s mission and business processes in all aspects of enterprise architecture including reference models, solution architectures, as well as in the systems supporting those missions and business processes.
Translate technology constraints and environmental conditions (e.g., law and regulation) into system and security designs and processes.

Applicant must have a strong technical background across a wide range of security disciplines and solutions and must have excellent communication, presentation, writing, and customer interface skills.
Essential job Functions
Abilities
Advise the security management on a range of security-related issues.
Serve as the primary liaison between the Lines of Business, Enterprise Architecture and Information Security teams and enable their alignment.
Coordinate with system owners, common control providers, and security engineers on the implementation of security controls.

Knowledge of:
Authentication, authorization, and access control methods.
Application security frameworks, designs and controls.
Cloud, endpoint, network communication, and encryption methods, protocols, principles and concepts.
Cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools and their capabilities.
Enterprise information security architecture.
Awareness of new and emerging information technology (IT) and cybersecurity technologies.
Cryptography, encryption key management concepts and current and emerging data encryption capabilities.
Information classification program and procedures for information compromise.
Integrating the organization’s goals and objectives into the architecture and translating operational requirements into protection needs.
Frameworks and methodologies for enterprise security architecture and service management.

Skills:
Designing countermeasures to identified security risks.
Determining how a security system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
Identify cybersecurity and privacy issues that stem from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to detail security controls and risks to technical and non-technical audiences.

Tasks:
Define and document security requirements for business solutions throughout their acquisition lifecycle to enable a security and privacy posture that is consistent with the organization's information security risk tolerances utilizing pre-existing or planned framework of cybersecurity controls and services.
Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plans.
Identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
Update job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Professional security certification desired (CISSP, CISM, CISA, etc.).
Strong understanding of security threats and knowledge of financial industry.
Experience in risk-based analysis and decision-making skills.
Cloud computing design, architecture and controls preferred.
Proven ability to identify and implement process improvement opportunities.
Results oriented, a team player, and self-starter with ability to work with general direction.
Ability to manage competing priorities.

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Job Posting Expiration Date: 11/06/2025

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