Enterprise Security Architecture Lead

Novonesis; Hørsholm; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Novonesis seeks a Head of Security Architecture in Hørsholm to lead the security architecture team across IT and OT. You will translate cyber risk into pragmatic architectural decisions, shape an enterprise-wide security vision, and align security with business priorities, technology strategy, and resilience goals.

In this leadership role you will mentor security architects, establish standards and guardrails, drive secure-by-design reviews, and partner with stakeholders worldwide to enable

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience within security architecture, cyber security, enterprise architecture, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong expertise in enterprise security architecture principles, standards, governance, and secure-by-design practices.
• Experience designing security across both enterprise IT and OT or manufacturing environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud, identity, data, AI, infrastructure, and emerging technology security.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex cyber risks into pragmatic, measurable, and business-aligned architectural decisions.
• Excellent people leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills in a complex global organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Security Architecture team, building a culture of trust, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain the enterprise-wide security architecture vision, principles, standards, patterns, and strategic direction.
• Embed secure-by-design practices across project and product lifecycles through architecture reviews, threat modelling, and security design assessments.
• Establish coherent security architecture practices across IT and OT/manufacturing environments, supporting resilience and production stability.
• Guide secure adoption of cloud platforms, identity services, AI solutions, data platforms, and other emerging enterprise technologies.
• Translate cyber risks into practical architectural requirements and influence strategic decisions on technology risk, transformation, investments, and M&A.

Skills

Security architecture leadership

Enterprise security architecture

Threat modelling

Cloud security

OT/IT security integration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS)

CISSP

CISM

TOGAF certification

Tools

AWS

Azure

SIEM

IAM tooling

Job description

Novonesis seeks a Head of Security Architecture in Hørsholm to lead the security architecture team across IT and OT. You will translate cyber risk into pragmatic architectural decisions, shape an enterprise-wide security vision, and align security with business priorities, technology strategy, and resilience goals.

In this leadership role you will mentor security architects, establish standards and guardrails, drive secure-by-design reviews, and partner with stakeholders worldwide to enable