ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - Enterprise Architecture

Happiest Minds Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options available

Job summary

Happiest Minds Technologies is seeking a senior cybersecurity architect to develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy and roadmap. You will lead a team of architects, manage budget and staff, and work closely with the CISO to align security investments with business goals.

The role requires defining standards and guidelines, guiding IT and security teams, and ensuring scalable, secure solutions aligned to evolving threats.

Qualifications

• Experience leading security architecture and roadmaps.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Budget ownership and staff recruitment/retention responsibilities.
• Collaboration with CISO and security leadership to align investments with business goals.
• Deep understanding of enterprise security standards and guidelines.
• Ability to drive secure, scalable, and integrated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Manage a team of security architects.
• Oversee budget, staffing, performance, and retention initiatives.
• Align security investments with business objectives with CISO.
• Define and maintain architecture standards and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to IT, security, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

Enterprise cybersecurity architecture

Team leadership

Budget management

Vendor management

CISO collaboration

Security governance

Job description

• Develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity and risk management architecture strategy and roadmap for our organization.
• Manage a team of architects.
• Responsible for the budget, and staff recruitment, performance, engagement, and retention.
• Work closely with CISO and other cybersecurity leadership to align our security technology investments with our business objectives.
• Define and maintain our enterprise cybersecurity architecture standards and guidelines.
• Provide leadership and guidance to our IT, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure that our systems and solutions are integrated, scalable, and secure.
• Remain current with new cybersecurity threats and assess systems to ensure they can defend the business.
• Stay on top of new and disruptive trends in the security industry. Formally communicate trends to EA and CISO.Advise CISO and leadership team in vendor/product/service selection, assist in educating and persuading business and operational leaders with adoption of security controls.
• Own development of rolling 18-month cycle to achieve To-Be architecture for Cybersecurity and risk management.
• Review vendor technology roadmaps into cybersecurity domain roadmaps to ensure continuous improvements to cyber domain operations, including cost-to-serve and other financial KPIs.
• Oversee development and maturity of Cybersecurity response, containment, recovery and restore playbooks for the enterprise.
• Partner with office of CISO to deploy Enterprise and Cyber Resiliency processes, procedures and methods.
• Oversee development and maintenance of blueprint of Disaster Recovery of critical business systems from Cyber induced disaster events.
• Partner with IT, Applications, Operations, IT GRC, Cybersecurity and other teams to simulate a Cybersecurity disaster and recovery drills, tabletop exercises.
• Partner with CISO to document gaps and drive collaboration to remediate.
• Partner with CISO to develop cohesive strategy to implement frictionless security controls and achieve industry certifications, such as HITRUST, SOC-II
• Partner with CISO to develop implementable roadmap to deploy controls aligning to security industry best practices, such as Zero Trust Network Access, Defense in Depth.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in our technology landscape.
• Collaborate with our IT and security teams to ensure that our technology investments comply with healthcare industry standards and regulations.
• Conduct architecture assessments and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Develop and maintain architecture-related policies and procedures.
• Provide guidance and support for technology procurement and vendor management