Senior Enterprise Security Systems Architect

Sempra; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sempra in San Diego seeks a Senior Engineering Leader for Corporate Security Technology to drive enterprise security architectures and lifecycle programs across access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and CSOC platforms.

The role partners with IT, cybersecurity, and business units to align technology with corporate goals, ensuring system reliability and governance while guiding modernization, vendor governance, and data continuity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develops and governs enterprise physical security technology architectures, engineering standards, technical specifications, integration strategies, and technology roadmaps supporting access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, alarm monitoring, CSOC platforms, and related infrastructure.
• Leads security technology lifecycle management, modernization initiatives, platform evaluations, upgrades, replacement strategies, and technical debt reduction efforts, ensuring alignment with Corporate Security, Information Technology, cybersecurity, and business requirements.
• Provides enterprise engineering leadership by overseeing technology testing and validation, complex system integrations, vendor and integrator technical deliverables, governance documentation, and the Corporate Security Embedded Engineering asset and support services.
• Oversees data recovery services and business continuity planning in cooperation with key users and local operations staff.
• Delivers operational updates to IT leaders who are responsible for business demand and funding.
• Oversees the formal communication process to report on status of planned and unplanned outage notifications for critical systems and applications.
• Leads the procurement, installation, and life-cycle maintenance of software for operations.
• Leads monitoring of data backups in offices for business continuity in the event of a disaster or hardware failure and ensures that they are completed on a regular basis.
• Reviews escalated application performance issues, and alerts emergency resources when a problem occurs.
• Establishes and maintains ongoing relationships with other teams and business areas to facilitate cross functional problem resolution and process improvements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Sempra in San Diego seeks a Senior Engineering Leader for Corporate Security Technology to drive enterprise security architectures and lifecycle programs across access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and CSOC platforms.

The role partners with IT, cybersecurity, and business units to align technology with corporate goals, ensuring system reliability and governance while guiding modernization, vendor governance, and data continuity initiatives.