Director Tech Security Architecture

Philip Morris International; Vaud; On-site; CHF 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL, trading as PMI, is actively seeking a Director of Security Architecture to lead a team of senior architects. You will define strategic security architecture across a complex global technology landscape and ensure security is embedded across enterprise platforms and major initiatives, including AI-driven programs.

You will govern frameworks, shapes roadmaps, and translate business strategy and risk into actionable architecture decisions, working with business and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of information security experience with enterprise security architecture leadership.
• Proven track record building high-performing security teams.
• Ability to translate strategy into architecture priorities and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Senior and Principal Security Architects.
• Own and evolve the enterprise security architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Translate business strategy and risk into architecture priorities and investments.
• Govern the security architecture framework across IT and OT.
• Chair security architecture governance and resolve cross-domain conflicts.
• Drive domain roadmaps with technology and business leaders.
• Provide architecture leadership for strategic programs and initiatives.
• Anticipate AI and frontier-AI risks and translate findings into decisions.

Skills

Security architecture leadership

Team leadership

Threat modeling

Executive communication

AI security

Education

University degree or equivalent

CISSP/CISM/CCSP

Job description

BE PART OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible. We're transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with one clear purpose: to deliver a smoke-free future.

This transformation creates exciting opportunities to rethink how technology, digital capabilities, and cybersecurity enable business success. Join our Enterprise Technology & Information Security organization and play a critical role in shaping the future of security across the enterprise.

As Director, Security Architecture, you will lead a team of highly skilled security architects and define the strategic direction of security architecture across a complex global technology landscape. You will work closely with business and technology leaders to ensure security is embedded into enterprise platforms, major transformation initiatives, and emerging technologies including AI.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY

• Lead and develop a team of Senior and Principal Security Architects, setting priorities, standards and accountability while developing and retaining talent.
• Own and evolve the enterprise security architecture strategy, operating model and multi-year roadmap across AI, IAM, data, cloud, infrastructure, endpoint, network, OT and cyber defense.
• Translate business strategy, threats and risk appetite into architecture priorities, target states and investment recommendations that enable secure growth, transformation and resilience.
• Govern the security architecture framework, including principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, guardrails and decision records, ensuring consistent application across IT and OT.
• Chair security architecture governance, resolving cross-domain conflicts and exceptions and escalating material technology and cyber-risk matters.
• Drive execution of domain roadmaps with technology and business leaders, clarifying ownership, resolving dependencies and ensuring architecture decisions become sustainable controls.
• Provide security architecture leadership for strategic programs, platforms, and major technology initiatives.
• Anticipate emerging technology and threats, including AI and frontier-AI risks, directing research and experimentation and translating findings into architecture and roadmap decisions.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• 15+ years of progressive information security experience, including enterprise Security Architecture leadership in a large, global organization.
• Proven leadership of senior technical professionals, with a strong record of building high-performing teams, developing talent and managing performance.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise security architecture, including strategies, target states, standards, reference architectures and multi-year roadmaps.
• Broad security architecture expertise across AI, IAM, data, cloud, infrastructure, endpoint, network, OT and cyber defense, with deep expertise in at least three domains.
• Proven ability to assess complex architectures through risk-based reviews, threat modeling, control patterns and residual-risk decisions.
• Exceptional executive communication and influencing skills in English, able to explain complex trade-offs, challenge constructively and build cross-functional alignment.
• Strategic foresight on emerging technologies and threats, particularly AI security, translating uncertainty into pragmatic architecture decisions and actions.
• Relevant university degree or equivalent experience; CISSP, CISM or CCSP expected, with CISSP-ISSAP, SABSA or TOGAF an advantage.

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