Enterprise Security Architect

Hiring for a Enterprise Security Architect for a client in Belgium (remote)

6 Month contract
Remote
day rate on experience per day
start ASAP

Spec below

Division

You will be joining the Security Architecture department within the Chief Information Security Office in charge of putting in place the required controls to adequately and effectively protect our information assets.

The main responsibility of the team is establish and promote security best practices to help business and IT achieving their ambitions. This includes building vision and strategy, ensuring best practices are known and implemented in a standard way and providing security principles and reference architecture.

Role

Enterprise Security Architect leverage their expertise to establish and promote security best practices.

As member of the enterprise security architect team:

· You will a leading role identifying the vision and strategies required to support the long-term objectives of application security.

· You will develop business cases for major evolutions of our IT capabilities and you syndicate a wide range of senior stakeholders within business and IT. This includes maintaining the architectural requirements.

· You will lead the development and drive the implementation of an enterprise transition to secure devops practices.

The design of the security best practices including architecture principles, tools, patterns and develop architecture policies, standards and solutions.

Provide guidance and be a facilitator to ensure that standard security best practices are applied consistently and in a meaningful way.

Share their experience and vision to build security awareness with business stakeholders, IT and operational teams. Become the go-to person for application security.

Collect feedback from stakeholders, detect unaddressed security needs and identify opportunities for collaboration.

Key Tasks:

To develop concrete architecture deliverables

To develop, maintain and share security best practices on application security.

To work in close collaboration with Domain Architect, Security team, Technology Managers, Enterprise Architecture Team to build security standard and solutions.

To raise awareness of security issues

Profile

· You have worked for more than 7 years in the IT industry and have proven experience working with senior management. Experience in the Financial Services industry and understanding of the complex regulatory environment is a plus.

· You have experience in enterprise patterns that promote application security.

· You have provided assistance to governance function to ensure good application quality practices are considered in all new designs.

· You have working knowledge of every part of security: protection, detection and remediation.

· You have experience in creating actionable strategies and setting up a small team to deliver it (implementation paths, with clear outcomes and continuous measurement of progress).

· You can tackle autonomously all types of architectural analysis and can provide global & pragmatic recommendations adapted to the company context with little guidance.

· Being proficient in English is required.

· Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures (e.g. CSD), knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF,SAFE) and relevant experience with Agile operating models and frameworks are extra assets.

Complimentary Experience & Competences:

* Knowledge of security standards, security systems and authentication protocols

* Knowledge of risk management framework & risk assessment procedures

* Knowledge of cloud solutions & cloud security.

* Solid understanding of public cloud environment and shared responsibility model

* Certification in Cyber-Security such as SANS, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, …

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