Security Architect (SABSA Certified)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise security architectures aligned with business goals, security requirements, and organizational risk appetite.
• Use SABSA to develop business-driven security architectures and solutions; assess architecture gaps and recommend controls and remediation.
• Develop roadmaps, reference architectures, principles, standards, and design documentation; translate business and risk requirements into technical solutions.
• Integrate controls across network, cloud, IAM, application security, and data protection; conduct threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews.
• Ensure regulatory, industry-standard, and organizational-policy compliance; collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business teams.
• Guide security transformation, cloud adoption, infrastructure modernization, and digital initiatives; review proposed solutions across system development and implementation.
• Maintain security architecture documentation, risk registers, control matrices, and governance artifacts.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant cybersecurity or enterprise security architecture experience; complex enterprise environments are preferred.
• SABSA certification is mandatory; practitioner or architect level is preferred.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, security design methodologies, and risk-based security approaches.
• Experience developing security architectures, security patterns, reference models, and implementation roadmaps.
• Knowledge of governance, risk, compliance, and control frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and COBIT.
• Strong knowledge of network security, IAM, cloud security, application security, data protection, and infrastructure security.
• Experience with security assessments, threat modeling, and risk analysis; strong stakeholder, communication, analytical, and documentation skills.

Preferred qualifications

• CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or TOGAF certifications are preferred.
• Experience integrating SABSA with enterprise architecture frameworks and cybersecurity governance practices is preferred.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud is preferred.
• Experience in regulated industries or large-scale enterprise environments is preferred.