IT Security Architect

Title: IT Security Architect
Location: West Bend, WI (onsite 2-days/week ideally; open to remote with onsite 2-3x/month)
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 Base Salary Benefits

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a key participant in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the enterprise information security program.
• Provides security consultation to IT management and IT staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the system development lifecycle.
• Consults with IT and security staff to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation, selection, installation, and configuration of hardware, applications, and software.
• Recommends and coordinates the implementation of technical controls to support and enforce defined security policies.
• Oversees the development of and/or alignment to technology hardening standards.
• Develops and communicates West Bend's multi-year information security strategy.
• Works with the Manager of Information Security to develop budget projections.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends the implementation of new or updated information security hardware or software.
• Performs security reviews of onsite, third-party technologies and sets security standards for implementation.
• Partners with Enterprise Architecture to understand potential threats that must be mitigated in defined solution approaches.
• Perform the architect role for IT security initiatives.
• Reviews mitigations and remediation of security incidents/vulnerabilities to ensure they are appropriate.
• Maintains awareness of Enterprise risk categories and mitigation strategies that require security solutions.
• Monitors the external environment for emerging threats and reviews these threats within the Information Security Program.
• Working with the engineering and development teams, develops, and implements controls and configurations aligned with security policies and legal, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Assists IT Service Owners in understanding and responding to security audit failures/risk assessment findings reported by Information Security and auditors.
• As a member of the Architecture Review Board, ensures technology solutions conform to corporate security architecture. Participates in the information-security governance process.
• As a member of the Change Advisory Board, assesses the impact of changes on our security.

Preferred Experience/Skills:
* 3-5 years of IT Architecture experience
* Minimum ten years of combined Information Security/IT experience, with at least seven of those years being directly related to the security field
* Experience working with SaaS vendors/products from a security assessment, risk, and compliance perspective
* Experience working with legal, audit, and compliance staff
* Strong leadership skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Strong analytical skills
* Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as NIST, ISO 2700X, ITIL, and COBIT

Preferred Education/Training:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related field
* Certifications in CISSP, CRISC, CISM, GIAC or other security industry certifications