Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Key Objectives / Accountabilities: 

The Enterprise Security Architect will play a crucial role in setting the technical direction applied to ensuring that our data and applications throughout the company remain secure. The role will be responsible for working with our Information Security team to ensure that the company’s platforms conforms to disciplined, industry best practices for information security. This highly visible position will be front and centre as we work to continuously harden our solutions and change the way we apply technology across our systems. A successful candidate for this position must possess both a deep and wide background in information security being applied across a modern could based estate.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Gaining an understanding of our Current State and Target State Architecture and then working to define a strategy for our technical direction around security.
• Gather and analyse requirements from our security audit
• Harden our Security Architecture for highly scalable and fault-tolerant applications that adhere to expected standards and discipline from a security posture.
• Provide technical and architectural oversight for systems and projects that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available (99.999% uptime), and maintainable.
• Introduce best practices and principles to enable consistent delivery and enable alignment with long-term direction.
• Lead and mentor other team members.
• Foster development best practices within the team.
• Identify and drive process improvements.
• Facilitate communication with cross-functional groups.
• Work with our security team to develop secure business requirements, develop the security architecture and integrate into our longer term platform strategy.
• Work directly with security teams to enable successful project implementation applying the recommended security changes, technologies and techniques.
• Stay up to date on new tools & techniques in the information security space.
• Develop strong business relationships with key service leads in the area for which the person has responsibility
• Collaborate with other ICT units and stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered in a cohesive and planned manner
• Maintain a position of audit-readiness at all times
• Ensure a smooth handover to Service Management in a timely fashion as part of Service Introduction within project delivery

Knowledge & Experience: 

• Experience in delivery within an ICT multi-vendor model, and management of interdependencies between vendors
• Experience in the following, AWS, MS O365 and Azure, Palo Alto Networks, CASB and MDM solutions
• Certifications ( or similar ), AWS Certified Security, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, ISC’s CCSP and CISSP
• Experience in implementing / supporting ISO27001
• Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and VAPT 
• Proven ability to create and foster a strong cross functional team, under tight delivery timelines 
• In-depth applied knowledge of standard project management concepts, practices and procedures.
• Excellent ambassador for our company, promoting the organisation and role modelling our company’s values.