Security Architect: Secure, Scalable AI-Ready Infra

Arcadis; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Tech Security Architect to govern secure, resilient technology architecture for the Technology Function in Amsterdam. Translate business drivers into scalable, future-ready infrastructure and security solutions.

You will embed secure-by-design principles, lead architecture reviews, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, DevOps and risk teams to balance speed, cost and risk while championing a people-first, inclusive Arcadis culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security-related architecture.
• Experience defining and implementing enterprise architecture strategy across applications, data, infrastructure, and security.
• Strong expertise in integration design, master data architecture, and interoperability frameworks.
• Ability to translate business drivers into secure, scalable infrastructure and security solutions.
• Experience embedding secure by design and resilience principles into technology designs.
• Experience enabling continuous threat exposure management across infrastructure and applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Leadership style enabling Arcadians, inclusive, high engagement.

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.
• Ensure interoperability, scalability, maintainability, performance and resilience across the IT estate.
• Define and enforce non-negotiable architecture standards, controls and guardrails.
• Embed "secure by design" and resilience principles into all technology designs.
• Govern adherence to architecture through reviews, patterns and design assurance.
• Lead gap analyses between current and future states.
• Define migration and modernization plans aligned to business priorities.
• Assess infrastructure readiness for AI workloads and data-intensive platforms.
• Embed AI-driven infrastructure and automation approaches where appropriate.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Solution and Domain Architects to ensure alignment across programmes and platforms.
• Engage with business, security, SOC, risk, legal, vendors and DevOps teams to balance requirements, constraints and opportunities.
• Provide architectural direction, coaching and mentoring to uplift capability.
• Identify and assess architectural risk across platforms, integrations, data flows and infrastructure landscapes.
• Provide clear, evidence-based trade-off recommendations balancing speed, cost, risk, scalability and long-term sustainability.
• Prevent unnecessary complexity by enforcing architectural standards and reducing duplication across technology towers.
• Embed security into DevOps and platform engineering (shift-left and continuous validation).
• Define threat modelling, detection engineering and secure runbook expectations.
• Enable continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) across infrastructure and applications.
• Deliver a coherent, secure and resilient global technology architecture.
• Align technology roadmaps to business outcomes and operational needs.
• Reduce technical debt and unmanaged complexity across the IT estate.
• Accountable for the health, safety, and wellbeing (HSW) of their teams, and championing an ambitious, people-first culture within Technology.

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder management

Threat modelling

DevOps security

Data architecture

Interoperability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Arcadis seeks a Tech Security Architect to govern secure, resilient technology architecture for the Technology Function in Amsterdam. Translate business drivers into scalable, future-ready infrastructure and security solutions.

You will embed secure-by-design principles, lead architecture reviews, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, DevOps and risk teams to balance speed, cost and risk while championing a people-first, inclusive Arcadis culture.