Strategic Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription drug coverage

Dental and vision plans

Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability coverage

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Wellness program

Parental leave

Vacation accrual

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is seeking an Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect to guide security architecture, risk reduction, and secure technology transformation across the organization. This senior individual contributor plays a key role in shaping strategy, standards, and roadmaps.

You will translate threat intelligence and regulatory expectations into actionable architecture, mentor security architects, and partner with cross‑functional teams to drive security by design, zero trust, and

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 15+ years in IT, cybersecurity, and business/industry.
• 10+ years of architecture experience across security, infrastructure, cloud, application, data, identity.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture strategy and governance.
• Strong ability to influence executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of enterprise cybersecurity architecture vision and technology direction, connecting business strategy, cyber risk priorities, and security capabilities through actionable architecture roadmaps and guiding principles.
• Shape and maintain the cybersecurity architecture roadmap across identity, infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, network, endpoint, third‑party, and operational technology domains; coordinate investment plans, interdependencies, and enterprise priorities.
• Serve as a senior security design authority for the most complex, high‑risk, cross‑portfolio solutions; lead cybersecurity architecture governance; and ensure adherence to security roadmaps, standards, policies, and control requirements.
• Establish and maintain authoritative security design patterns, reference architectures, control patterns, and cybersecurity architecture standards to drive consistent adoption across the enterprise.
• Define security architecture guidance for emerging technologies, including AI and Generative AI, with attention to data protection, access controls, model risk, responsible AI practices, and secure lifecycle standards.
• Assess external cyber threat trends, emerging attack techniques, regulatory expectations, and security technology forces; author executive position papers that identify strategic cyber risks, opportunities, and required investments.
• Ensure vendor, platform, and security technology selections align with enterprise cybersecurity strategy, risk appetite, control objectives, and long‑term architecture direction.
• Drive security‑by‑design, zero trust, least privilege, defense‑in‑depth, segmentation, secure configuration, data protection, and resilience principles across the technology portfolio.
• Partner with security operations, risk management, infrastructure, engineering, application, data, privacy, and compliance teams to ensure architectures support threat detection, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability management, and regulatory obligations.
• Prioritize remediation of architectural security debt, legacy risk, and systemic control gaps; define measurable outcomes that reduce likelihood and impact of cybersecurity events.
• Set and reinforce the enterprise security architecture quality bar by establishing expectations for secure engineering, operational readiness, logging, monitoring, resilience, and incident response integration.
• Expand cybersecurity architecture capacity by mentoring architects and engineers, delegating to qualified security architecture leaders, and championing a security‑first architecture culture and common language across SGWS.

Skills

Security architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Threat modeling

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Executive communication

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

AWS/cloud services security

Secure SDLC

Security frameworks

Job description

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is seeking an Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect to guide security architecture, risk reduction, and secure technology transformation across the organization. This senior individual contributor plays a key role in shaping strategy, standards, and roadmaps.

You will translate threat intelligence and regulatory expectations into actionable architecture, mentor security architects, and partner with cross‑functional teams to drive security by design, zero trust, and