Cybersecurity Architect

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Guide architecture decisions, establish security standards and reference architectures, and lead architectural reviews.
• Assess solution designs and security readiness; identify risks and mitigation strategies.
• Develop cybersecurity artifacts, models, patterns, roadmaps, capability documentation, and strategy materials.
• Analyze business and IT environments for security gaps and recommend improvements.
• Advise executives and stakeholders on technology, strategic value, cost, return on investment, and cybersecurity risk.
• Track business strategies, industry trends, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity threats.
• Educate and influence stakeholders, build partnerships, and design solutions for complex cybersecurity issues.

Requirements and preferred qualifications

• Extensive cybersecurity architecture experience and ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
• Preferred experience includes AI, medical devices, and IoT/IoMT/OT security.
• Preferred expertise includes SASE, SD-WAN, ZTNA, micro-segmentation, and public cloud security such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Cloud security certifications such as CCSP are strongly preferred.

Workplace and schedule

• Remote opportunity, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• An ideal candidate resides in the Phoenix or Tucson areas.