A leading financial services organization operating critical market infrastructure is seeking an experienced Security Solution Architect to strengthen its enterprise security architecture. The role focuses on translating complex business, risk, and security requirements into scalable architectural solutions, with a particular emphasis on cryptography, key management, emerging cryptographic risks, and secure technology adoption.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise security architectures aligned with organizational architecture principles, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Translate business requirements and risk assessments into clear security architecture requirements and high-level technical designs.
- Define architectural principles, standards, and patterns for cryptography, key management, digital certificates, and related security domains.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, application, cloud, network, and business teams to ensure consistent implementation of security best practices.
- Assess existing and emerging security risks, identify architectural gaps, and evaluate build, buy, and hybrid solutions with clear technical trade-offs.
- Act as a subject matter expert, supporting proof-of-concept activities, architectural decisions, secure technology adoption, and continuous security improvement.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Strong enterprise architecture knowledge across applications, infrastructure, networking, cloud environments, and cybersecurity.
- In-depth understanding of cryptography, public key infrastructure, key management, cryptographic agility, and emerging post-quantum security challenges.
- Strong understanding of how cryptography is implemented across protocols, certificates, software libraries, applications, hardware, and network communications.
- Ability to assess multiple technical discovery sources, identify security coverage gaps, challenge assumptions, and evaluate complex architecture options.
- Proactive and analytical mindset with the ability to independently investigate complex problems and drive initiatives from technical assessment through architecture and implementation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; experience within financial services or critical infrastructure environments and relevant security or architecture certifications are considered an advantage.
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