Cyber Security Architect

About this role

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as an expert contributor in the development and implementation of cybersecurity architectures, patterns, strategies, and solutions supporting emerging technology and AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities.

• Evaluates opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, orchestration, analytics, and other emerging technologies to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and operating models.

• Develops current-state, transitional, and future-state cybersecurity architectures that integrate capabilities across multiple cybersecurity domains and technology platforms.

• Assesses opportunities to improve interoperability and automation across areas including:

• Vulnerability and Exposure Management

• Configuration and Security Posture Management

• Identity and Access Management

• Endpoint Protection and Detection

• Security Operations

• Asset and Technology Inventory

• Threat Detection and Response

• Security Analytics and Automation

• Explores how AI agents and autonomous or semi-autonomous capabilities can securely interact with cybersecurity platforms, enterprise systems, data, and workflows while maintaining appropriate security controls, governance, and human oversight.

• Identifies opportunities to reduce fragmented security processes through technology integration, consolidation, automation, and intelligent orchestration.

• Evaluates emerging cybersecurity technologies, platforms, tools, and architectural approaches for potential applicability within the enterprise.

• Develops reference architectures, architecture patterns, capability models, technical recommendations, and roadmaps supporting future cybersecurity capabilities.

• Partners with cybersecurity domain architects, engineering teams, security operations, technology teams, and other stakeholders to evaluate cross-domain architecture requirements and integration opportunities.

• Assesses architectural considerations associated with machine identities, AI agents, privileged access, authentication, authorization, data access, trust boundaries, and automated actions.

• Evaluates security implications associated with integrating AI capabilities into cybersecurity technologies and operational workflows.

• Helps establish architectural principles and guardrails for the responsible and secure adoption of emerging AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities.

• Identifies dependencies, architectural gaps, integration challenges, technical risks, and opportunities associated with future-state cybersecurity architectures.

• Develops technical assessments, architecture documentation, recommendations, and executive-level presentations communicating complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Proactively monitors technology developments and industry trends that may materially change cybersecurity architecture, operating models, or defensive capabilities.

• Works effectively in an environment involving emerging technologies, ambiguity, experimentation, and rapidly changing technical capabilities.

Education
Minimum

• B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or another relevant technical field.
Desired

• M.S., M.B.A., or advanced technical degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, or equivalent field.
License/Certification Desired
One or more relevant cybersecurity or technology certifications preferred, such as:

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• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

• Cloud or security architecture certifications

• Vendor-specific security or AI certifications

• Other equivalent cybersecurity, architecture, cloud, or emerging technology certifications

Experience Minimum

• Minimum of 6 years of combined cybersecurity, information technology, architecture, engineering, or related technical experience.

• Demonstrated experience designing, evaluating, or implementing enterprise cybersecurity architectures and solutions.

• Experience working across multiple cybersecurity technology domains rather than exclusively within a single security discipline.

• Experience developing architecture patterns, technical strategies, integration approaches, or future-state technology designs.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technologies and translate technical capabilities into practical enterprise use cases.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams including architects, engineers, cybersecurity operations, developers, infrastructure teams, and technology vendors.

Experience Desired
Experience or demonstrated knowledge in the following areas is highly desirable:

• Generative and agentic AI: LLMs, AI agent architectures, and agent-to-system and machine-to-machine interactions

• AI security and governance: secure adoption of emerging AI capabilities

• Enterprise security architecture: reference architectures, design patterns, and defense-in-depth

• Zero Trust architecture: covering network, platform, and identity

• Security platform strategy: integration, technology rationalization and consolidation, capability modeling, and roadmapping

• Vulnerability and exposure management: attack surface management, asset discovery and inventory, and risk prioritization

• Security configuration and posture management: control assessment and configuration baselines

• Identity and access management: authentication, authorization, identity governance, and privileged access management

• Non-human identity management: machine, workload, and AI agent identities

• Security operations and detection: endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, SIEM/SOAR, telemetry and analytics, threat detection and response, and automated orchestration

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Technical Competencies

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