Security Architect- 100% Remote - ARC Group

SECURITY ARCHITECT – REMOTE

ARC Group has an immediate and very exciting opportunity for a Security Architect! This position is 100% remote. This is starting out as a contract position running through August 2024 with strong potential to extend longer or convert to FTE. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
 
At ARC Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We believe that diverse perspectives lead to better innovation and problem-solving. As an organization, we embrace diversity in all its forms and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.
 
100% REMOTE!
 
Candidates must be eligible to work for any employer without sponsorship now or in the future. Third party candidates are not eligible for this role.
 

Job Description:

The Senior IT Security Architect plays a crucial role within the company, serving as a trusted advisor on industry best practices. This individual is tasked with designing and executing enterprise security strategies, architectures, and solutions to steer the direction of IT security effectively. They hold responsibility for ensuring the security architecture spans various applications or domains and are assigned to projects/initiatives of significant size, complexity, and risk.

In this role, the Senior IT Security Architect develops actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards, and guidelines. These measures are aimed at ensuring that the enterprise's information technology architecture remains consistent, usable, secure, and adds tangible value to the business.

The Senior IT Security Architect collaborates closely with vendors, as well as IT and business contacts, to facilitate the development of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective security solutions. Additionally, they offer technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced Security Architects, fostering their professional growth within the organization.

 

• Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms.
• Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
• Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.
• Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
• Participates in security governance processes.
• Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
• Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
• Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
• Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
• Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
• Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
• Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.
• Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents.
• Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.
• Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
• Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects.
• Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.

Required experience:

• Health care industry related experience is preferred
• Information Security certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM)
• Experience using Agile methodology
• Extensive experience with IT Infrastructure Services components and how to enable the business while at the same time providing the appropriate level of Security controls
• Experience with Network Security principles, such as Firewalls, perimeter defenses, load balancers, proxy servers
• Experience with End-Point, Remote Access, Network Systems Management, Messaging & Collaboration, and Logging & Monitoring Security solutions
• Big Data architectures such as Hortonworks suite of products: Hadoop, Kafka, Redis, and Object Storage principles
• Amazon Web Services ""AWS"" and Microsoft Azure deployment, Security, Network, and Operational architectures and solutions
• Identity and Access Management “IAM” concepts and principles such as federation, delegated access (user managed access “UMA”), single sign on, OAuth, and OpenID.
• Securing Digital Engagement models such as mobile, IOT, wearables, etc.
• Security engineering for API gateways, REST Web Services, JSON Web Tokens “JWT”, SOAP
• Knowledge of CMS ARS controls and ability to design security controls to support control objectives
   

Experience Required
3 or more years Security, Application or Systems Architecture Experience

Education
• Bachelor's degree required or relevant work experience

Would you like to know more about our new opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume directly to D.A. Longhi at dlonghi@arcgonline.com or apply online while viewing all of our open positions at www.arcgonline.com.

ARC Group is a Forbes-ranked a top 20 recruiting and executive search firm working with clients nationwide to recruit the highest quality technical resources. We have achieved this by understanding both our candidate's and client's needs and goals and serving both with integrity and a shared desire to succeed.

At ARC Group, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Position offered with no fee to candidate.