Security Architect

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Description:

Advises the Chief Information Security Officer and senior management on a range of security-related issues. Serves as a liaison between the Enterprise Architecture and Information Security teams and enables their alignment. Coordinates with system owners, common control providers, and security engineers on the implementation of security controls. Analyzes and designs the security architecture for cloud applications, platforms, and infrastructures. Incorporates security requirements necessary to protect the organization's business processes in all aspects of enterprise architecture including reference models, solution architectures, as well as in the systems supporting those missions and business processes. Translates technology constraints and environmental conditions (e.g., law and regulation) into system and security designs and processes. Coaches and mentors others on security threat and vulnerabilities identification.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participates in the development of hardware/software/network security procedures and guidelines that support KeyBank information security policies.
• Analyzes the security of new technology, applications, and systems and provides actionable results to comply with KeyBank policies and standards.
• Assists with the design of security models, reviewing, and approving security configuration and installation of cloud platforms, network systems, security controls systems, and servers.
• Collaborates with other security teams to enhance the entire enterprise defense systems and solve challenges.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the Lines of Business, Enterprise Architecture and Information Security teams and enable their alignment.
• Coordinate with system owners, common control providers, and security engineers on the implementation of security controls.
• Inspects policies, standards and processes compliance of network defense implementation, monitors corrections where necessary.
• Designs countermeasures to identified security risks.
• Determines how a security system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
• Identifies cybersecurity and privacy issues that stem from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.
• Monitors industry security updates, technologies, and best practices to improve security management, and address regulatory changes affecting information security policies and procedures.
• Provides guidance for defense monitoring and implementations in different environments.
• Coaches and mentors others on security vulnerabilities identification, malicious activity detection and effective defenses building in complex situations.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Professional security certification desired (CISSP, CISM, CISA, etc.).
• Strong understanding of security threats and knowledge of financial industry.
• Strong risk-based analysis and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge and experience with Application security frameworks, designs and controls, cloud platforms, endpoint system, network communication, encryption methods, protocols, security principles and concepts.
• Awareness of new and emerging information technology (IT) and cybersecurity technologies.
• Proven ability to identify and implement process improvement opportunities.
• Results oriented, a team player, and self-starter with ability to work with general direction.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $94,000 to $175,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

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