Security Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Working with the segment Business Information Security Leader, serve as the primary security subject matter expert to programs and product delivery teams to provide security-by-design support.
• Provide security solution support across a broad range of security domains through:
• Understand business needs and comprehend associated threats.
• Publish security requirements.
• Provide engineering guidance and solution patterns to a cross functional engineering organization.
• Lead security design reviews.
• Using data and telemetry from security tools provide reinforcement of risks to product teams.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the evolving cyber security threat landscape and modern engineering patterns.
• As part of the Security Architecture organization:
• Contribute and be the point of contact for Syneos Healths Architecture Review Board.
• Partner with domain security architects to address program solution gaps.
• Accelerate delivery through the adoption of AI tools
• Act as the security escalation point for delivery teams, identifying risks and blockers early and driving timely resolution.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (please indicate if ‘preferred’)

Security Advisory / Product Security

• 7 years’ experience with executing secure-by-design agile processes across multiple large programs.
• Proven ability to partner with business segment product teams to deliver secure solutions in a clinical setting.
• Strong presentation and communication skills for technical and business audiences.
• Working experience with using AI tools to accelerate delivery of security-by-design processes.
• Working experience with common security frameworks NIST, ISO 27001, Hitrust, CSF, Mitre Att&ck.

Technical

• Strong design proficiency in multiple security domains including:
  
• Modern cloud security for tenants, landing zone and workload architectures for Azure, GCP or AWS
• Data protection solutions (Preferred Microsoft Purview, DLP)
• Software Engineering and API Security.
• Enterprise Identity (Preferred: Entra, Auth0, MFA).
• Understanding how to secure SaaS applications.
• Mobile Device Security.
• Ability to grasp new technology concepts and understand security needs quickly.
• Strong experience building solution architect and engineering patterns

• Experience with:

• Securing AI applications (GenAI, Agentic AI)
• Jira or other collaboration tools

Education:

• College degree or relevant experience in the cyber security engineering field.
• CISSP
• Cloud Certification for (Azure, GCP preferred)
• AI certifications