Cybersecurity Architect - Mergers and Acquisitions (Remote)

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Mettawa (IL); Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Security Architect to join their innovative team. This role is pivotal in coordinating security services during mergers and acquisitions, ensuring that security measures align with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in security architecture, particularly in cloud and application security, and will engage with various teams to develop secure design patterns and playbooks. This position offers the flexibility of remote work, allowing you to contribute to exciting projects that shape the future of information security.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Short-term Incentive Programs

Long-term Incentive Programs

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in security architecture or related fields.
• Experience with mergers, acquisitions, and multi-company collaborations.
• Strong knowledge of industry security standards like NIST 800.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate security services during acquisitions and divestitures.
• Develop secure design patterns for collaborations.
• Create new security playbooks focused on business alliances.

Skills

Cloud Security

Application Security (AppSec)

Network Security

Identity Management

Security Architecture

Mergers and Acquisitions

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

M365

Slack

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

AbbVie is looking for a Security Architect with experience in mergers and acquisitions to join our Information Security Strategy and Intelligence group.

This position can be virtual/remote anywhere in U.S.

AbbVies Information Security group engages with our business development teams through several stages of a company relationship, whether its a research-sharing relationship or an acquisition. We provide advisory services to reduce both risk and technical friction in these transactions.

As a Security Architect, your will act as a single-point-of-contact between security and other technical and business teams, operating across both operational and strategic levels, developing and coordinating design and advisory responsibilities with different areas of the information security group on individual acquisitions and research ventures. You will interact with internal research and business intelligence teams, technical teams, and other members of the information security group to develop and deliver security products and services. You will play a key role in further shaping the services this program is delivering, while ensuring in-flight acquisitions have the right security services provided at the right times.

This role will reside within the Cyber Threat Intelligence team, with a dotted-line relationship with our security architecture group.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with infrastructure and technology teams, security teams, and acquisition target teams to coordinate core security and tech services during an acquisition or divestiture
• Partnering with infrastructure, tech and security teams to develop, document, and deploy secure design patterns for collaborations with strategic alliance partners
• Partner with internal security and technical teams to develop new security playbooks and services focused on business alliances and strategic acquisitions

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will have practical experience in a relevant discipline of security architecture (Cloud Security, AppSec, Network Security, Identity), and can speak to practical solutions they have designed and successfully implemented. Experience in the following is preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years experience; Master's Degree with 8 years experience; PhD with 4 years experience.
• At least five years experience in an information security role, preferably as a Security Architect or Security Engineer
• Direct experience with designing and/or providing solutions related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and/or multi-company collaborations
• Experience with a variety of security tooling and capabilities, preferably with some hands-on/operational exposure (self-hosted and cloud)
• Working knowledge of popular cloud platforms and associated security solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) and collaboration platforms (M365, Slack)
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and related security constructs (domains, forests, trusts, etc.)
• GCFE, GCFA, GDSA, GCTI, GCIA, GCDA, GEIR certifications are strongly preferred.
• A solid understanding of industry security standards, such as NIST 800, ISO 27001, etc.
• Related technical/industry certifications (e.g. SANS, AWS, etc.)

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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