Senior IT Security Architect

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Hospital Colorado seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to guide enterprise-level system design and architecture across services and platforms. You will collaborate with technical teams, managers and stakeholders to shape requirements that meet organizational and end-user needs.

As a senior contributor, you will mentor staff, establish architectural standards, and drive secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of eight years related experience.
• Equivalency: twelve years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.

Responsibilities

• Evolves organization's architecture to meet business requirements, emerging technologies, budgetary constraints and strategic goals.
• Maintains expertise and mentors others in the subject matter.
• Supports governance, standards, and communication of architecture initiatives.
• Establishes and monitors architectural approaches for business requests and functionality, providing complex options and recommendations.
• Partners to create technology roadmaps and align development plans for effective system integration.
• Designs complex solutions per specifications and reviews designs for reliability and reuse.
• Communicates architecture details to team, management and stakeholders.
• Maintains documentation and mentoring within the department.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues and communicates risks.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

IAM & PKI

Zero Trust architecture

Threat modeling

Security design

TOGAF

NIST CSF

SIEM

AI/ML security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Overview

This position is responsible for the full performance of complex work providing enterprise level system design guidance and consultation, utilizing a thorough understanding of applicable technology, tools and existing designs. Duties include collaborating with technical team, manager, customers and project managers to develop system and technology requirements to meet organizational and end user needs. Provides recommendations regarding configuration, design, usability and maintainability for services, applications, interfaces and other dependencies that integrate with system platforms. This position may perform lead work over lower level staff.

Additional Information

Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits

Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm, work hours may vary due to department needs. This position does have on-call requirements.

• This is a hybrid position, with some onsite expectations. This does require you to live in the state of Colorado.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensures the evolution of the organization's architecture is aligned with changing business requirements, emerging technologies, industry best practices, budgetary constraints and organizational strategic goals.
• Maintains expertise in relevant subject matter, uses expertise to mentor others.
• Supports outreach, education and communication of standards under the organization governance and quality initiative.
• Establishes, guides and monitors architectural approaches and technical solutions for business requests and desired functionality. Provides complex technical architecture options and makes recommendations to meet project objectives.
• Partners with other involved parties create technology road maps and align development plans to ensure effective integration of various systems, identify and provide recommendations regarding overlapping or competitive technologies.
• Designs complex solutions according to specifications, business needs and organizational guidelines and standards. Reviews designs from other technologists to maintain reliability and promote reuse.
• Communicates architecture and design details to team members, senior management and stakeholders.
• Creates, maintains, assists and/or mentors with departmental documentation.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues, communicates issues and perceived risks.
• Creates and maintains positive culture, leading team by exemplifying desired behaviors (SoB, Behavioral Rubric), mentoring and fostering collaboration.
• Supports project initiatives by reviewing designs and estimates to validate implementation projections, scope and deliverables. Proactively communicates issues or perceived risks to the project.

Minimum Qualifications

• EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree is required.
• EXPERIENCE - Minimum of eight (8) years of related experience is required.
• EQUIVALENCY - Combination of post-high school education, job related certification and/or related experience equivalent to twelve (12) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.

Preferences:

• Previous experience with architecture across multiple cloud-based platforms, including identity and access management (IAM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) for secure data transmission
• Previous healthcare experience is a plus.
• CISSP, GIAC, or SANs certifications preferred
• Proficiency with NIST CSF (Cybersecurity Framework), TOGAF, or SABSA for enterprise security design
• Previous experience with implementing Zero Trust architecture, defense-in-depth strategies, threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and integration of security into Develops pipelines.
• Experience with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platforms, vulnerability management, and automated security testing
• Previous experience with securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $121,394.93 to $182,092.39

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.