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ID #23549323
State Connecticut
City Hartford
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Travelers
Showed 2021-11-27
Date 2021-11-26
Deadline 2022-01-25
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Cybersecurity Senior Architect

Connecticut, Hartford, 06101 Hartford USA

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Company Summary

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

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Job Description Summary As a Cybersecurity Senior Architect, you will help lead the effort to create the "north star" technology architecture for the "ABC" Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. This position may be based as100% remote or in one of our offices. As a direct report to senior technology leadership you will interface directly with those leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to our Technology and Business organization as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. As an organizational leader yourself, you will humbly serve and inspire a team of high-performing Architects who you will coach, mentor and empower. As a successful candidate, you are a visionary leader with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI and ML. You are a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand.You will work within an dedicated architecture community charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.The primary responsibilities of this role include the following:

Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of a business unit

Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives

Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization

Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt

Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering

Drive, develop, publish, and communicate cloud security architecture patterns that are consumable across the enterprise.

Define best practice cloud security through evaluation of cloud vendors

Establish security requirements needed to provide services securely

Develop solutions to measure compliance to published cloud security standards

Assessing and testing existing cloud computing assets, modernizing network security, and encrypting data to secure the system further.

Design zero trust into the security ecosystem

Perform threat analysis to ensure capabilities are designed to mitigate security risks

Partner with software engineers to design cloud security architectures that provide secure capabilities to secure applications and software for accessing the cloud.

Design procedures for user access to the system, setting access controls and administrative practices

Educate other workers about secure usage of the company's cloud computing service.

Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise

Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions

Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions

Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies

Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps

Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state

Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction

Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy

Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent

Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture

Minimum Qualifications
  • High School diploma or equivalent required.
  • 5 years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture required.
  • 1 year of experience as a technical lead required.

Job Specific Technical Skills & Competencies

There is a strong preference for:

Six years of experience in enterprise security architecture or related disciplines

Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology Architecture experience

AWS Certification - Associate, Professional or Security Specialty Certification - Preferred but not required

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - Preferred but not required

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) - Preferred but not required

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) - Preferred but not required

Provided mentorship to architects

Organizational and transformational experience in an agile operating model

Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization

Strong proven Software Engineering experience

Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals

Proven track record of influencing senior leadership

Insurance technology experience

Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .

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