Security Architect - Secure by Design & AI-Ready Infra

Arcadis; Amersfoort; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Security Architect to define and govern secure, resilient technology architecture for the Technology Function. The role translates business drivers and risk priorities into scalable, future-ready infrastructure and operational security solutions.

As a global leader, you will embed “secure by design,” lead architecture reviews, mentor teams and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Solution and Domain Architects, Cybersecurity, SOC, Risk, Legal and DevOps to balance speed,

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in security related architecture.
• Proven track record defining and implementing enterprise architecture strategy across multiple technology towers, including applications, data, infrastructure, and security.
• Strong expertise in integration design, master data architecture, and interoperability frameworks.
• Deep understanding of secure, resilient technology architecture and the translation of business drivers and risk priorities into scalable, future-ready infrastructure and operational security solutions.
• Experience defining and enforcing non-negotiable architecture standards, controls and guardrails, and embedding secure by design and resilience principles into technology designs.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture across platforms, integrations, data flows and infrastructure landscapes, including threat modeling, detection engineering and secure runbook expectations.
• Experience enabling continuous threat exposure management across infrastructure and applications and embedding security into DevOps and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technology strategy into architectural principles, reference models and future-state roadmaps.
• Design enterprise-wide infrastructure and platform architecture spanning on-prem, hybrid, multi-cloud, data centres, AI/ML foundations, edge and emerging technologies.
• Embed security into DevOps and platform engineering (shift-left and continuous validation).
• Govern adherence to architecture through reviews, patterns and design assurance.
• Lead gap analyses between current and future states.
• Define migration and modernisation plans aligned to business priorities.

Skills

Security architecture

Stakeholder management

Threat modeling

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's in cybersecurity

Master's in cybersecurity

Tools

TOGAF

Threat modelling tools

Job description

Arcadis seeks a Security Architect to define and govern secure, resilient technology architecture for the Technology Function. The role translates business drivers and risk priorities into scalable, future-ready infrastructure and operational security solutions.

As a global leader, you will embed “secure by design,” lead architecture reviews, mentor teams and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Solution and Domain Architects, Cybersecurity, SOC, Risk, Legal and DevOps to balance speed,