Secure Data Architect & Cloud Data Engineer

Highmark Health; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen is seeking a senior data security architect to design, architect, and secure data solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments while ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.

Partner with security, data engineering, cloud, and application teams to develop scalable data platforms, data pipelines, analytics solutions, and data protection capabilities that enable secure and responsible use of enterprise data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience as determined by the company.
• 5-7 years in information security and security architecture.
• Experience communicating with business partners.
• Preferred 7-10 years architecting solutions.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and large-scale data processing environments.
• Experience securing cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, or AWS).

Responsibilities

• Enhance security team accomplishments by planning delivery of solutions and mentoring.
• Determine security requirements by evaluating strategies and risk assessments.
• Plan security systems by evaluating network and security technologies.
• Implement security systems by specifying intrusion detection methodologies and setup.
• Enhance department reputation by ownership for new requests and value addition.
• Provide leadership and mentoring in architecture to peers and teams.
• Support assurance compliance to required standards, procedures, guidelines and processes.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

Data governance

Communication with partners

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, CS, Information Security, or Engineering

Master’s degree in CS, Information Security or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Spark

Hadoop

Cloud platform security

Job description

enGen is seeking a senior data security architect to design, architect, and secure data solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments while ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.

Partner with security, data engineering, cloud, and application teams to develop scalable data platforms, data pipelines, analytics solutions, and data protection capabilities that enable secure and responsible use of enterprise data.