Cybersecurity Architect

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As a Cybersecurity Architect, you will act as a subject matter expert in Cybersecurity, providing architectural guidance across various technical departments and teams within Blackbaud. The ideal candidate will have a proven history of offering technical security consultation and architectural advice on cloud security (Azure/AWS), identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM), Active Directory, data protection, logging, and other cybersecurity capabilities.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with Cybersecurity capability leaders and other technical teams to gather requirements and develop technical solution architectures that securely facilitate the desired business capability.

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge in designing and/or implementing secure cloud environments through cloud identities, software-defined and borderless networks, serverless, container, and composable architectures, etc.

• Formulate strategies that are secure by design and align with the company’s policies and standards.

• Carry out proof of concept activities with key business users to support advanced use cases.

• Create and develop reference architectures, security patterns, and anti-patterns that can be utilized for scalable and decentralized deployments across on-premises and multi-cloud hybrid environments.

• Evaluate and assess new third-party solutions and their integration with Blackbaud systems to ensure the organization’s security posture is not exposed to unnecessary risk.

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years experience with Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture concepts and practices.

• 6+ years experience creating and developing reference architectures, security patterns, and anti-patterns.

• Comprehensive knowledge/understanding of securing cloud computing architectures (Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform) using identities, network and endpoint security controls, data protection, etc.

• Industry recognized certifications demonstrating architecture expertise. 

  • Prefer CISSP-ISAAP, SABSA, TOGAF.

• Industry recognized certifications demonstrating security expertise: 

  • Prefer CISSP, CCSP, CRISC, SANS/GIAC, Azure security, AWS security.

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