Enterprise Security Architecture Manager

Enterprise Security Architecture Manager

Location : Iselin, NJ

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Compensation : $160-220k

Responsibilities :

• Responsible for the development and implementation of the enterprise security architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization's business objectives, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements.
• Define security architecture standards, frameworks, and best practices, ensuring they are consistently applied across the enterprise.
• Ensure that security architecture designs are scalable, flexible, and future-proof to accommodate changing business needs and evolving threat landscapes.
• Champion security across multiple divisions, ensuring security is embedded into the design and implementation of products, services, and technology solutions.
• Provide thought leadership and guidance on security risks, policies, and controls to senior management and stakeholders, influencing key business decisions.
• Familiarity with SABSA framework and its six layers, particularly in risk management and security strategy development
• Lead efforts to assess and mature security practices across the enterprise
• Stay abreast of industry trends, frameworks, and regulations (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001 / 2, SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, NIST CSF, SP 800-53, PFMI, CPMI ISOCO and FFIEC handbook, SABSA) to ensure the organization is proactive in addressing emerging security threats and compliance challenges
• Foster relationships with key functional teams such as IT, Compliance, Operations, Finance, HR, Internal Audit, and Enterprise Risk to support current and future initiatives
• Keep informed of new and emerging security threats & assess effectiveness of current controls to identify opportunities for program improvement
• Provide expert-level security architecture design, analysis, and consultation to enterprise-wide programs, ensuring security risks are appropriately mitigated during the planning and design stages.
• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of security architects, ensuring they have the necessary skills, knowledge, and resources to effectively design and implement security solutions.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture, promoting innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Manage team performance, provide regular feedback, and ensure professional development opportunities for all team members.
• Define clear goals and objectives for the team, ensuring alignment with the broader security strategy and organizational goals.
• Work closely with technology teams, including Infrastructure, Cloud, Development, and Security, to embed security into solutions from the outset.
• Oversee and guide assessments of new technologies, vendors, and third-party services to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and reduce potential risk exposure.
• Lead and guide project and program managers to ensure the integration of security architecture across various initiatives, with a focus on scalability, compliance, and risk management.
• Define, monitor, and enforce security architecture governance processes to ensure that security standards and controls are met across the enterprise.

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