Role : Information Security Architect
Location : Boston, MA
Experience : 10+years
W2 Contract
Required Skills
This is a onsite role Candidate must be local and must work onsite in Boston, MA
Additional Skills
Job Description
Location: 1Ashburton Place in Boston, Room 1608
Summary Of The Position
This posting is for an Information Security Architect to assist the Executive Office for Administration and Finance IT (A&F IT) and will:
- Ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information by communicating risk.
- Create and maintain enforceable policies supporting processes.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate security-related activities with A&F IT-supported agencies. Activities include the evaluation, procurement and deployment of security-related products and the development and coordination of security awareness, disaster recovery and incident response plans.
- Be responsible for the translation and construction of complex security problems into sound technical solutions.
- Provide technical, security and architectural direction to technology/business teams.
- Ensure that development efforts are adhering to established security, design, and compliance standards/requirements.
- Provide insight and guidance on overall secure system design.
- Be responsible for secure infrastructure and application architectures.
- Document, maintain and communicate security architectural requirements.
- Monitor emerging technologies for potential impacts to operations and long-term strategy.
- Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk; direct the development and implementation of corrective action plans for resolution of identified issues.
- Ensure adherence to legal standards regarding information security compliance; implementing and following industry standards and best practices for security compliance; and developing reliable, efficient and effective project development processes.
- Provide strategic and tactical advice to address existing and evolving security threats.
Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Include
- A minimum of 10 years of experience within information technology
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in information security or cyber security; with at least 5 years of exposure to various security frameworks, preferably NIST
- 5 years of managerial, team leadership or supervisory experience in large, matrixed organizations
- Extensive experience with policies/procedures, application design, information analysis and reporting, networking and systems integration, security control, audits, risk analysis and disaster recovery
- Ability to supervise staff including performance appraisal, employee coaching, training, development and performance management
Skills: information security,disaster recovery,security analysis