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**Job Description** As the Regional Head of Security Architecture and Engineering at Northern Trust, you will be a senior technical member of the security organization, playing a pivotal role in guiding and setting the direction for the company's security architectural and strategic activities. Your responsibilities will involve ensuring that all acquired or developed systems and architectures align with the company's Information Security policies, standards, and guidelines. You will need a blend of deep technical knowledge, hands-on experience, strategic vision, and effective communication skills to influence security practices and architectural decisions within the organization. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Security Architecture Guidance:** - Serve as the senior technical expert in security architecture. - Provide guidance and set direction for security-related architectural and strategic activities. - **Security Reviews and Risk Management:** - Conduct Security Architecture reviews to ensure alignment with company policies and standards. - Collaborate with stakeholders to perform security reviews, identify gaps, and develop risk management plans and recommendations. - **Strategic Development:** - Develop long-term strategic goals for technology infrastructure services. - Evaluate security architectures and designs to ensure they meet business objectives. - **Reference Architectures:** - Develop and document secure by design reference architectures. - Define protection needs, security controls, and governance frameworks for managing technology. - **Security Control Assessment:** - Assess security controls for software, applications, and systems within the company. **Basic Required Qualifications** - **Technical Expertise:** - Extensive experience in technical infrastructure security assessments and design. - Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies, standards, and products. - **Knowledge Areas:** - Applications, networks, firewall, storage, and IDM concepts. - Cloud Infrastructures. - Industry-standard and organizational risk analysis principles. **Required Skills And Qualifications** - **Deep expertise in cybersecurity principles:** - Including network security, application security, identity and access management, data protection, and threat intelligence. - **Proven experience:** - Designing and implementing complex security architectures across diverse technology environments. - **Strong leadership and team management skills:** - Ability to motivate and develop technical talent. - **Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills:** - Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams. - **Knowledge of relevant security certifications:** - CISSP, CISA, CISM preferred. **About Northern Trust** Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to its enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With over 130 years of financial experience and more than 22,000 partners, Northern Trust serves the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. **Job Description** As the Regional Head of Security Architecture and Engineering at Northern Trust, you will be a senior technical member of the security organization, playing a pivotal role in guiding and setting the direction for the company's security architectural and strategic activities. Your responsibilities will involve ensuring that all acquired or developed systems and architectures align with the company's Information Security policies, standards, and guidelines. You will need a blend of deep technical knowledge, hands-on experience, strategic vision, and effective communication skills to influence security practices and architectural decisions within the organization. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Security Architecture Guidance:** - Serve as the senior technical expert in security architecture. - Provide guidance and set direction for security-related architectural and strategic activities. - **Security Reviews and Risk Management:** - Conduct Security Architecture reviews to ensure alignment with company policies and standards. - Collaborate with stakeholders to perform security reviews, identify gaps, and develop risk management plans and recommendations. - **Strategic Development:** - Develop long-term strategic goals for technology infrastructure services. - Evaluate security architectures and designs to ensure they meet business objectives. - **Reference Architectures:** - Develop and document secure by design reference architectures. - Define protection needs, security controls, and governance frameworks for managing technology. - **Security C
