Staff Security Architect

Job Description

Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for an Staff Security Architect to join our Information Security team. The Staff Security Architect will own standards and guidelines around AppSec and drive collaboration with teams globally.

 

What You’ll Do

• Develop strategies and operations to improve win rates for discovering, articulating, and demonstrating Applied’s solutions to deliver on specific customer requirements and desired business outcomes
• Identify and lead initiatives and programs to scale the organization and its operations for future growth
• Partner with internal teams to align on overall strategy and priorities and provide support for specific prospects, customers, and partners
• Drive the capabilities of an enterprise transformation, ensuring security is done holistically and in everything we do, and that the infrastructure is flexible, efficient, reliable, and secure
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Services teams to provide feedback to improve products, services, and value messaging
• Establish an enterprise-wide process to evaluate security tools & vendors, maintain a catalog of approved and preferred tools, and assist business divisions with tool rationalization where feasible
• Develop and champion reusable patterns, practices, and enterprise reference architectures that fit within the overall Applied architectural direction
• Understanding and current on emerging technologies, industry innovations, and competitor technology positioning to define new or refresh existing strategic architectures
• Work with other Information Security leaders to provide guidance and expertise as it relates to the Security Program
• Work with other Information Security team members to establish Security Standards in alignment with the mission of the Information Security team

 

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 10 years of business experience in planning, organizing, and developing Infrastructure and Cyber / Information Security Operations related capabilities
• 5 years of experience within medium to large enterprises
• 5 years of hands-on technology experience
• 5 years of people leadership experience; direct and matrixed
• 3+ years of experience with GDPR, HIPAA, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, or NIST CSF
• 3+ years of experience designing and deploying solutions in cloud
• Excellent and professional communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to articulate complex topics in a clear and concise manner
• Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer or partner IT landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of preferred security architecture and security services in conjunction with business requirements
• Expert understanding of network and web related protocols (such as TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.)
• Expert level understanding of SDLC, Secure by Design, application development and infrastructure

What You’ll Gain

 

Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

 

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
• Volunteer time off

 

Empowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.

 

What We Value

 

We strive for excellence at every turn to be the best at what we do. We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We fulfil the promise of insurance – safeguarding and protecting what matters most in people’s lives. And there is no more important job than that.

 

Our focus on the workforce, workplace and marketplace gives us a qualified individual in an environment in which they can be productive while we maintain our position in the industry. To help drive that change toward a vibrant, modern workplace, we have employee-driven networks with commonalities in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and military status.

 

Who We Are

 

Applied Systems is the leading global provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in i