Principal Security Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define solution intent and architectural vision in partnership with senior business and technology leaders, ensuring alignment with GIS policy and enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with senior architects and product managers to develop and execute security roadmaps that deliver on strategic outcomes.
• Advise senior executives on security risks, technology gaps, and architectural trade-offs; develop secure solutions through domain expertise, experimentation, and proofs of concept.
• Lead the evolution of enterprise-level security architecture, ensuring designs are secure, resilient, and adaptable to emerging requirements.
• Partner with governance and control owners to resolve policy issues and strengthen standards and best practices.
• Mentor and guide other GIS architects, driving consistency, reuse, and adoption of architectural patterns across the cybersecurity organization.
• Establish and continuously improve architectural practices, templates, and documentation.
• Work with product managers and senior technology leaders to prioritize security backlog items that enable business epics and features.
• Influence resourcing, budgeting, and funding decisions through architectural input and business case development; may provide people leadership or direction for special initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security architecture, with some people management experience.
• Broad expertise across information security technologies, processes, and control frameworks.
• Strong ability to research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and strategies.
• Demonstrated experience aligning security capabilities with regulatory, legal, and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF).
• Familiarity with common security bodies of knowledge (e.g., NIST, ISACA, SANS, ISC2).
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, globally distributed organization.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and executive influencing skills.
• Experience working in agile and product-based delivery models, with a track record of successful transformation.
• Experience evaluating vendors and supporting deployment and integration decisions.