Security Solutions Architect
Role: Security Solutions Architect
Location: 4 Days Onsite at Washington DC
Duration: 6+ months
Essential Job Functions:
• Experienced IT professional establishing the direction for enterprise-wide projects and contributing to strategies, plans, and policies related to security, risk management, and/or compliance.
• Consults to project teams where significant risk, security and compliance issues are involved, including those that have not been encountered before and/or have broad implications for the enterprise.
• Empowered to make decisions at the enterprise level which can impact all ITS and WBG, functions independently with limited work direction.
• Takes a lead role in developing the risk management, security, and/or compliance plan for a project, ensuring design is compliant with policy, operational requirements and within defined risk appetite.
• Creates advisory documents or project artifacts in standard situations; identifies root causes of risk, security, and/or compliance incidents that arise and directs the resources necessary to resolve them.
• Conduct risk, security and compliance audits /assessments and define strategies to address identified issues and prioritize risk treatment options to manage risk within defined appetites.
• Monitors emerging trends in IT security, risk management and compliance, and makes recommendations to management.
• Assist with the establishment and maintenance of a framework to provide assurance that internal controls and processes meet best practice and audit requirements.
• Designs controls, standards and key risk and performance indicators. Educates colleagues in their area(s) of expertise and assists in the development of awareness and compliance training programs.
• Provides technical expertise on the administration of tools relates to their area(s) of expertise.
• Provides guidance to project teams on security/ risk management /compliance issues; ensures that project plans / technology initiatives are compliant. Resolves project problems related to their area(s) of expertise.
• Provides technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Leads programs to enhance security/compliance/risk awareness across the WBG
• Develops innovative solutions, contributes new insights to understand situations and develops solutions to resolve complex problems. Identifies and pursues innovative approaches to resolve issues.
• Participates in the evaluation of emerging technologies that are new to the information systems industry. Applies knowledge across WBG to strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients.
Selection Criteria:
• Master’s degree with 8 years relevant experience or bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience. Sample degrees: Computer Science, Information Management, and Information Systems.
• Experience in providing guidance for application security, risk assessment, and data protection based on data sensitivity and associated business risks.
• Experience with enterprise security architecture design and implementation for a financial services organization or other organizations with similar information security needs and requirements.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), including specific examples of automating and managing infrastructure through code in previous roles.
• Proven knowledge and application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Generative AI, with real life solutions of using these technologies to address complex challenges.
• Extensive experience in API security, successful implementation of robust security practices and protocols to ensure the protection and integrity of APIs.
• Familiar with Microsoft, Azure, and Office 365 technology platforms, applications, and security controls for such Microsoft technologies.
• Familiar with Agile practice at an enterprise scale. Familiar with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a plus.
• Experience guiding project team remediating common application vulnerabilities.
Certification Requirements:
To apply for this job email your details to aabid@ustechsolutionsinc.com