Senior Cybersecurity Architect — Remote Lead

Paylocity; Springfield, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Connected Logistics is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead cybersecurity architecture across enterprise systems, cloud environments, and networks. The role conducts threat modeling, creates secure solution designs, and ensures security controls are integrated throughout the lifecycle.

Remote with occasional on-site support, the position requires a strong background in security architecture and collaboration with stakeholders across architecture, engineering, and development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 2 extra years experience.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, security architecture, or related field.
• Experience designing, evaluating, and implementing cybersecurity architectures.
• Experience with threat modeling and architecture reviews.
• Ability to communicate security architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform cybersecurity architecture reviews for enterprise systems, applications, infrastructure, cloud services, networks, and technology solutions.
• Develop and document secure solution architectures that integrate cybersecurity requirements, security controls, and risk mitigation measures into the overall technical design.
• Conduct threat modeling and security design analysis to identify attack paths, threats, vulnerabilities, trust boundaries, and security risks before solution implementation.
• Evaluate existing cybersecurity architectures, controls, technologies, and protocols to identify security gaps and recommend improvements.
• Define security architecture requirements for hardware, software, network, application, data, identity, and cloud platforms.
• Review proposed solution designs, system integrations, interfaces, and data flows to identify architectural security concerns and recommend safeguards.
• Develop security architecture artifacts, technical recommendations, diagrams, patterns, standards, and design guidance.
• Ensure cybersecurity considerations are incorporated throughout the system development and solution lifecycle.
• Provide cybersecurity technical leadership and guidance to solution architects, engineers, developers, security teams, and other technical stakeholders.
• Assess new and emerging technologies for potential cybersecurity risks, architectural impacts, and integration requirements.
• Support the design and implementation of upgrades and improvements to existing cybersecurity capabilities, controls, and security architectures.
• Identify cybersecurity risks and develop appropriate architectural mitigation strategies to reduce organizational and technical risk.
• Support security engineering activities associated with system modernization, cloud adoption, application transformation, and enterprise technology initiatives.
• Communicate security architecture findings, risks, recommendations, and design decisions to both technical and program stakeholders.

Skills

Threat modeling

Architecture reviews

Security leadership

Stakeholder comms

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Associate degree + 2 yrs exp

Job description

Connected Logistics is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead cybersecurity architecture across enterprise systems, cloud environments, and networks. The role conducts threat modeling, creates secure solution designs, and ensures security controls are integrated throughout the lifecycle.

Remote with occasional on-site support, the position requires a strong background in security architecture and collaboration with stakeholders across architecture, engineering, and development teams.