Principal Info Sec Technologist (Virtual)

University of Phoenix; Phoenix, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Award

Annual Equity Award

Deferred Compensation Plan

Job summary

University of Phoenix is seeking a Principal Information Security Technologist to lead security design and governance across multimedia platforms and cloud environments. You will partner with multiple teams to align security standards with business needs, drive risk reduction, and influence executive decision-making.

The role emphasizes strong communication, strategic thinking, and a track record in enterprise security design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 15 years in an architecture function or an equivalent combination of education and job-related experience
• Broad understanding of security domains (IAM, Network, End User Compute, Application, Platform, Data, etc.)
• Deep understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends
• Experience designing security controls for deployments in public cloud services
• Ability to ideate future solutions and technical designs to meet business needs
• Adaptive learning of complex technical systems
• Organizational agility to drive execution
• Excellent written and oral communication with business and technical teams

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in engineering and architecture efforts for information security technology solutions; ensure governance across projects, applications, and infrastructure
• Lead product and software design across multiple teams; develop roadmaps and plans; guide analysis and decisions
• Ensure identity, data protection, and privacy measures are built into production solutions
• Lead technical presentations on security topics and industry trends
• Drive the security framework for university systems, cloud environments and infrastructures
• Assess data privacy in existing platforms and design next-gen security architectures
• Participate in leadership meetings to translate security solutions to business needs
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Security governance

Cloud security

Agile methodologies

Security architecture

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Master’s Degree in a related field

Job description

At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!

About Us

University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.

Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.

We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.

About the Position

The Principal Information Security Technologist is a key senior-level technology partner with broad and comprehensive responsibility for conceptual information security design and implementation of technology solutions that support business needs and deliverables, leading to substantial and direct revenue/cost savings as well as protecting the organization. The individual ensures development and design governance specific to security threats across projects that span multiple application platforms (including in-house solutions, modulating Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications and Software as a Service Application (SaaS)), as well as the infrastructure solutions that deliver full platform functionality that efficiently and effectively service key business processes.

What You’ll Do:

1. Provide leadership and expertise in engineering and architecture efforts for information security technology solutions to support key business needs and deliverables; ensure governance across projects, applications and infrastructure.

2. Lead product and software design and development across multiple technical teams; develop short- and long-term strategies to reduce risk and align business requirements with security standards; guide problem analysis and requirements development; develop roadmaps and plans and track against such; lead build/buy decisions and vendor selection efforts; review and approve analysis, design and other work.

3. Ensure identity, data protection, and privacy measures are built into solutions delivered in production to the business, staff, faculty and students.

4. Lead technical presentations and address various topics including but not limited to security in general, risk identification/mitigation, technical standards and best practices, industry trends and up-and-coming technology, methods, techniques, etc., retrospectives and lessons learned.

5. Drive the framework for the University’s systems, infrastructure, cloud environments and solutions as it relates to security standards and compliance; develop and/or review system designs and architectures and provide security-related guidance that is aligned with regulatory and compliance requirements.

6. Assess/document existing design with respect to data privacy of existing platforms; apply critical and strategic thinking to generate ideas that will lead to the next generation of platform designs for security and privacy.

7. Participate in leadership meetings and councils regarding technical and business-driven initiatives to develop and translate security solutions to meet business needs.

8. Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

NOTE: The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 15 years of experience working in an architecture function with knowledge and experience developing reference architectures and patterns supporting governance functions OR an equivalent combination of education and job-related experience OR
• Master’s Degree and 10 years of related experience

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Broad understanding of all security domains (e.g. I&AM, Network, End User Compute, Application, Platform, Data, etc.)
• Deep understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends and the practical application of existing technologies
• Deep understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on delivery opportunities
• Experience designing security controls for the deployment of applications infrastructures in to public cloud services
• Ability to ideate future solutions and technical designs to meet critical business needs
• Adaptive learning of complex technical systems
• Organizational agility to drive execution
• Creative approach to problem solving with a proven ability to focus on details
• Excellent decision-making capabilities with an objective mindset that has the ability to balance theoretical solutions against achievable goals
• Excellent team work skills and an ability to lead through influence
• Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to engage with the business on its own terms as well as with technical teams across various technical disciplines

University of Phoenix is an Equal Opportunity employer.

If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.

Pay Range

The annual pay range for this position is $130,500 (minimum), $196,800 (midpoint), and $263,100 (maximum).*

*Typical hiring range is between the minimum and midpoint of the above pay range. Actual starting base pay may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, location and budget. Compensation above the midpoint is generally associated with experienced, long-tenured employees who have demonstrated sustained performance and expertise in the role.

Individuals in this role are eligible for:

• Annual Bonus Award
• Annual Equity Award
• Participation in the Deferred Compensation Plan

Your work is critical to helping adult learners achieve their dreams, and we’re committed to rewarding you for your efforts. We offer a competitive, comprehensive total rewards package designed to help you achieve your health, financial, educational and work-life balance goals.

Full-time employees are eligible for:

• Medical, dental and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Life and Disability insurance; and our Wellness incentive program;
• Competitive 401(k) employer match;
• Substantial tuition discount for you and eligible dependents; and,
• A generous time off package, including paid vacation, sick time and company holidays.*