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Job titleInformation Security Architect
Job typeContract Hybrid (40% onsite)
Job locationBoston MA
Roles and responsibilities:
- Ensure the confidentiality integrity and availability of information by communicating risk.
- Create and maintain enforceable policies supporting processes.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate securityrelated activities with A&F ITsupported agencies. Activities include the evaluation procurement and deployment of securityrelated products and the development and coordination of security awareness disaster recovery and incident response plans.
- Be responsible for the translation and construction of complex security problems into sound technical solutions.
- Provide technical security and architectural direction to technology/business teams.
- Ensure that development efforts are adhering to established security design and compliance standards/requirements.
- Provide insight and guidance on overall secure system design.
- Be responsible for secure infrastructure and application architectures.
- Document maintain and communicate security architectural requirements.
- Monitor emerging technologies for potential impacts to operations and longterm strategy.
- Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk; direct the development and implementation of corrective action plans for resolution of identified issues.
- Ensure adherence to legal standards regarding information security compliance; implementing and following industry standards and best practices for security compliance; and developing reliable efficient and effective project development processes.
- Provide strategic and tactical advice to address existing and evolving security threats.
Required knowledge skills and abilities include:
- A minimum of 10 years of experience within information technology
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in information security or cyber security; with at least 5 years of exposure to various security frameworks preferably NIST
- 5 years of managerial team leadership or supervisory experience in large matrixed organizations
- Extensive experience with policies/procedures application design information analysis and reporting networking and systems integration security control audits risk analysis and disaster recovery
- Ability to supervise staff including performance appraisal employee coaching training development and performance management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to translate security and risk to all levels of the business in technical and nontechnical terms.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
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