Cyber Security Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Design and Implement cybersecurity agents based on architectures for applications, infrastructure, cloud, and data platforms.
• Lead threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and security risk reviews for systems and solutions
• Implement enforce security reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails
• Understand perimeter and app security and guide engineers on implementing the cybersecurity agents
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, and cloud engineering teams to embed security by design
• Drive Zero Trust adoption across identity, network, data, and workload security
• Select and integrate security tools for monitoring, detection, incident response, and governance
• Establish a cybersecurity semantic layer by building a cyber knowledge graph and integrating endpoint threat detection, analysis, and protection capabilities
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies for security enhancement
• Provide guidance during digital transformation, cloud migration, and modernization initiatives
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on cybersecurity posture and strategy

Preferred candidate profile

• Proven experience as a Cybersecurity Architect or senior security professional in large scale enterprises
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, SABSA, TOGAF
• Security)
• Expertise in cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), IDAM /IAM, and application/data security
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, endpoint security, and vulnerability management solutions
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards (GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2, etc.)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with AI-powered security, automated threat detection, and security analytics
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, container security (Kubernetes, Docker), and microservices security
• Background in incident response, digital forensics, and red/blue team exercises
• Ability to design resilient security architectures in hybrid and multi-cloud environments