Director, Security Architect

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KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Security Architect to join our Tax Technology organization.

Responsibilities:

• Develop reference and example architecture solutions for meeting security requirements for networks, systems, IOT devices, applications, clouds, IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services, code management, development and deployment toolchains, adhering to industry standards; solutions include architectures, guidelines and hardening baselines
• Serve as the Security Lead in the design, implementation and integration phases of projects; Provide coaching, guidance and direction on projects, ensuring compliance with internal and external security requirements; provide risk assessment feedback, including security requirements; provide security consulting services internally to the organization by giving security guidance and functioning as an information security subject matter professional
• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive the product roadmaps for security tools by providing security requirements that help to map security controls and patterns to product features
• Lead internal skills development activities for information security personnel on new technologies or process changes driven by security requirements, by providing mentoring and conducting knowledge sharing sessions; stay up to date with technology trends to ensure reference architecture and strategies stays current; understand successes and failures in the marketplace to better guide the firms security strategy
• Define information security controls and patterns that support risk assessments and support the development of secure architectures; provide technical security expertise to KPMG teams solutions including communicating security architectural decisions, benefits and risks
• Collaborate with technology architecture teams by performing security analysis of proposed architectures, providing risk assessment feedback and including security requirements; provide security consulting services internally to the organization by giving security guidance and functioning as an information security subject matter professional

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent progressive experience designing and implementing secure architecture and reference architectures; from business requirements gathering to technology rollout oversight, including capacity management, definition of scoring methodologies for technology selection, integration of multiple tools and reporting functionalities and technical documentation
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; CISSP is preferred
• Technical expertise (and some subject matter certification) in Cloud Computing (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and/or IBM Cloud); experience securing Cloud Software Architectures including: CI/CD processes, Cloud native applications and DevSecOps; A Secure Development Background including: SDLC / Defensive Coding, Threat Modeling, software architecture and design is preferred
• Experience with security related regulatory requirements, such as NIST, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA compliance
• Expertise in one or more of the following domains: Identity and Access management, Network Security, Endpoint Security, Application Publishing or Security Monitoring and Response
• This role is a remote work opportunity; candidates must be able to perform work during the Eastern or Central time zones regular business hours

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