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Principal Security Architect

chicago, il • Posted 5 days ago
Onsite Full Time IT Management & IT Project Management

Key Responsibilities

  • Define solution intent and architectural vision in partnership with senior business and technology leaders, ensuring alignment with GIS policy and enterprise standards.
  • Collaborate with senior architects and product managers to develop and execute security roadmaps that deliver on strategic outcomes.
  • Advise senior executives on security risks, technology gaps, and architectural trade‑offs; develop secure solutions through domain expertise, experimentation, and proofs of concept.
  • Lead the evolution of enterprise‑level security architecture, ensuring designs are secure, resilient, and adaptable to emerging requirements.
  • Partner with governance and control owners to resolve policy issues and strengthen standards and best practices.
  • Mentor and guide other GIS architects, driving consistency, reuse, and adoption of architectural patterns across the cybersecurity organization.
  • Establish and continuously improve architectural practices, templates, and documentation.
  • Work with product managers and senior technology leaders to prioritize security backlog items that enable business epics and features.
  • Contribute across multiple initiatives simultaneously and adapt quickly between priorities.
  • Influence resourcing, budgeting, and funding decisions through architectural input and business case development; may provide people leadership or direction for special initiatives.

Success Criteria

  • Promotes collaboration and builds consensus across stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Applies enterprise policy, best practices, and threat analysis to influence secure outcomes.
  • Diagnoses root causes and solves complex problems in dynamic, high‑pressure environments.
  • Provides informed input into financial planning and investment decisions.
  • Demonstrates strong ownership, accountability, and commitment to delivery.
  • Maintains a clear enterprise perspective, aligning individual and team efforts to shared goals.
  • Drives consistent, sustainable processes that deliver predictable, high‑quality results.
  • Delivers agreed business value within defined tolerances for scope, schedule, and cost.

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in security architecture, with some people‑management experience.
  • Broad expertise across information security technologies, processes, and control frameworks.
  • Strong ability to research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and strategies.
  • Demonstrated experience aligning security capabilities with regulatory, legal, and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF).
  • Familiarity with common security bodies of knowledge (e.g., NIST, ISACA, SANS, ISC2).
  • Proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, globally distributed organization.
  • Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and executive influencing skills.
  • Experience working in agile and product‑based delivery models, with a track record of successful transformation.
  • Experience evaluating vendors and supporting deployment and integration decisions.

Skills

  • Automation
  • Influence
  • Result Orientation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Application Development
  • Architecture
  • Business Acumen
  • Risk Management
  • Solution Design
  • Agile Practices
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Data Management
  • Solution Delivery Process

Shift & Hours

  • Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
  • Hours per week: 40

Pay and Benefits

  • Pay range: $156,500.00 – $230,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
  • Discretionary incentive eligible: Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on overall performance.
  • Benefits: Industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to employees to make a genuine impact.

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