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Principal Architect, Security

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Job Description - Principal Architect, Security

Purpose of the Job:
This role is responsible for securing the bank’s HR, Finance and Risk technology assets. This role provides security controls design input for Enterprise Technology and Data architectures. This role acts as the single-point-of-contact for security services engagement that may be required for Enterprise Technology and Data teams. This senior leadership role oversees security by design, security by default, secure development and validation needs of the Enterprise Technology and Data initiatives tailored to the needs of the Risk, Finance and HR functions of the bank.

Main Activities:

    • Acts as cyber security champion and ambassador for Enterprise Technology and Data team and actively engages with the leadership team to support business outcomes with security advisory services.
    • Ensures seamless onboarding to the right security services as needed.
    • Act as liaison between Cyber Subject Matter Expert teams and the Enterprise Technology and data team ensuring right-sized security engagements.
    • Provide security control design input for Data and Enterprise apps initiatives, ensuring control design is right-sized, risk based and meet regulatory and compliance security requirements.
    • Engage with Enterprise Technology & Data and business teams (risk, finance and Human resources) to ensure security controls implementation and remediation are prioritized as needed.
    • Develop tools, documentation that will enable Enterprise technology and data teams efficiently embed security into practices of building, releasing and maintaining technology systems under their purview (shift-left initiatives)

Knowledge/Skill Requirements:

    • A college diploma or university degree in computer science (or related course) or Industry recognized certifications (e.g. CISSP) with 7 years cyber security experience is required.
    • Minimum of 8 years of technical IT experience.
    • Minimum of 6 years of Cyber Security experience
    • Minimum of 2 years of experience with enterprise data platforms, Enterprise resource planning or similar solutions.
    • Strong knowledge of cyber security frameworks, controls and practices
    • Strong engineering or security architecture knowledge, (prior hands-on technology engineering experience is preferred)
    • Microsoft Azure solutions Architect expert, Microsoft Cyber security Architect Expert, Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA) Foundation, Practitioner or Master level designations, TOGAF certifications are a plus
    • Strong experience architecting and implementing solutions in Cloud environments (Microsoft Azure)
    • Strong experience with data architecture, data engineering or security consulting for similar technologies.
    • Strong experience documenting architecture flows and diagrams.
    • Good knowledge of cyber threats, risks and control design best practices.
    • People & resource management
    • Strategic and Financial Planning
    • Process design and implementation experience is a plus
    • Technology Roadmaps
    • Ownership & Accountability
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