Senior Director, Cybersecurity Architecture

Role: Senior Director, Cybersecurity Architecture

Location: Remote

Duration:12+months

Interview: VIDEO

Experience: 10+ years

Role Summary:
Senior cybersecurity leader responsible for enterprise security architecture strategy, governance, solution design, and security transformation. This role leads cybersecurity architects/engineers, establishes architecture standards and roadmaps, and partners with executive technology and business leaders on security, risk, resiliency, and modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop cybersecurity architects and engineers.
• Define enterprise security architecture frameworks, standards, reference architectures, and governance.
• Lead security architecture/design reviews for major and high-risk initiatives.
• Drive security strategy across cloud, IAM, network, endpoint, application, and data security.
• Partner with senior executives and technology leaders on security, risk, cost, and business objectives.
• Establish security governance, metrics, roadmaps, and security-by-design practices.
• Support threat management, vulnerability management, detection, response, and resiliency.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, for security risks and opportunities.
• Lead talent development, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational growth.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of cybersecurity/technology leadership experience.
• Strong experience in enterprise cybersecurity architecture and governance.
• Proven experience leading teams and senior-level stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Azure.
• Experience with SIEM, threat management, vulnerability management, and security operations.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, or CEH.
• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, IT, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience with large/global enterprises, M&A, technology transformation, and organizations with 25+ direct/indirect reports.

Technical Stack

Cloud: AWS, Azure, OCI
Security Architecture: Enterprise Security Architecture, Zero Trust, Security-by-Design, Architecture Governance
Identity: IAM, PAM, MFA
Security Operations: SIEM, SOC, Threat Intelligence, Threat Management
Vulnerability: Vulnerability Management, Risk Management
Endpoint: EDR/XDR, Endpoint Security
Network: Network Security, SASE/SSE
Application: Application Security, Secure SDLC
Data: Data Protection, Information Security
Automation: Security Automation, SOAR, Scripting
Emerging Tech: AI Security / AI Risk Assessment