Strategic Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect

Southern-Glazer-S-Wine-; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription coverage

Dental and vision plans

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Wellness program

Paid vacation & sick leave

Job summary

Southern Glazer's is seeking an Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect to lead the organization’s security architecture program, translating threat intelligence and business priorities into secure roadmaps and reference architectures. The role acts as a senior technical authority, shaping standards and patterns across identity, cloud, data, and applications while driving secure engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with modern security architecture, risk-based decisioning,

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of cybersecurity architecture frameworks, control frameworks, and security standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SABSA, zero trust, secure SDLC, threat modeling, and risk-based architecture decisioning.
• Expert knowledge of modern security architecture patterns across AWS cloud services, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, microservices, APIs, identity and access management, privileged access, encryption, key management, secrets management, event-driven architecture, data protection, and security analytics; relevant certifications may include CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF, AWS/Azure security certifications, or similar credentials.
• Expert knowledge of business, operating, risk, and financial models

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; ensure adherence to 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, 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 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 across SGWS

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

NIST CSF

ISO 27001

CIS Controls

Zero trust

Threat modelling

AWS cloud

IAM

Job description

Southern Glazer's is seeking an Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect to lead the organization’s security architecture program, translating threat intelligence and business priorities into secure roadmaps and reference architectures. The role acts as a senior technical authority, shaping standards and patterns across identity, cloud, data, and applications while driving secure engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with modern security architecture, risk-based decisioning,