We are assisting a leading Investment management firm build out their Enterprise Architecture function and seeking experienced leaders to join this growing team. This function will align technology with business capabilities to enable effective strategy execution and business transformation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of the enterprise security architecture strategy, ensuring it aligns with business goals and IT initiatives.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise security strategy that integrates security principles across applications, data, and infrastructure.
- Advocate for embedding security practices into the enterprise architecture framework.
- Focus on conceptual and logical architecture design, collaborating with security, platform, engineering, and operations teams to translate plans into practical, secure designs.
- Drive the integration of security throughout all phases of software development and architecture planning.
- Ensure technology solutions comply with regulatory requirements and internal security policies.
- Drive initiatives that optimize and modernize technology architecture, focusing on security improvements.
- Stay updated on industry trends, adopting cutting-edge tools and best practices for security.
- Serve as an advisor to development teams, promoting a "shift-left" approach to integrate security early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and along the DevSecOps pipeline.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 10+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience, including 5+ years in a senior security architecture role leading a team
- Expertise in security architecture principles, patterns, and best practices.
- Proficiency in multi-cloud security (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Strong knowledge of secure software development and zero-trust architecture across the software lifecycle.
- Financial Services / Asset Management experience strongly preferred