Cybersecurity Senior Architect
Job Description Summary
Cybersecurity Cloud Architect at Wintrust is a technical leadership role to develop strategic and technical solutions to drive maturity of Wintrust’s Cloud environments. As a Cybersecurity Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for reviewing, validating and guiding implementation of cloud native or 3rd party security controls across all business units at Wintrust. You will work with business leaders, infrastructure and development organizations, and risk and governance to infuse information security controls into business and technology processes. In addition, you will lead development of threat modeling for SaaS and PaaS based products and services to identify risk and participate in architectural reviews of products in internal development and 3rd party providers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead cloud-centric Information Security strategy to meet Wintrust strategic growth goals
- Research and lead design of cloud-based security solutions with the Wintrust product and services offerings across all business units, drive cloud security and support a security strategy tailored to enterprise needs
- Adapt hands-on approach with the Wintrust products and services implementation to define and deliver information security requirements and architectural solutions
- Guide integration of modern authentication and authorization security controls into Wintrust IaaS and PaaS platforms, 3rd party SaaS, and integrated multi-vendor environments
- Serve as a subject matter expert on SaaS, PaaS and IaaS technologies and security with responsibilities to ensure enablement of robust security controls
- Lead development of cloud security assessment program to identify cloud-based vulnerabilities and threat; develop mitigation plans to address identified security gaps
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant architect experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS)
- Certifications: Azure, Microsoft, AWS, Data Science
- Banking experience strongly preferred