Architect / banking / financial - Riverwoods, IL, United States - Discover Financial Services

Description

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As a Principal Cybersecurity Architect, you will be part of the Cybersecurity Architecture Team focused on helping design, implement and mature innovative and cutting-edge security capabilities.

The Cybersecurity Architecture Team champions secure by design principles into our initiatives, provides hands on technical leadership for security domains, assists with defining vision and execution of strategy aligning to business needs and is expected to help solve wide range of security challenges.

The Cybersecurity Architecture Team is part of a highly collaborative Cybersecurity program and an engineering culture driven technology organization. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

The Principal Cybersecurity Architect will be primarily aligned with supporting the technologies used within Discover's Security Operations Center. The secondary focus will be infrastructure- Endpoint, Network, and Cloud security.

Designs, updates and maintains security architecture capabilities for several products in assigned domain ( e.g., Application, Cryptography, Endpoint, Network, Cloud, or IAM) optimizes functionality, minimizes risk, and aligns with business objectives

Evaluates technical solutions and incorporates emerging and strategic cybersecurity technologies into technical solutions, considering costs, business benefits, technical limitations, risks and compliance considerations to align with cybersecurity objectives , enterprise and portfolio future state architecture direction.

Works closely with key cybersecurity stake holders such as Cybersecurity Product leadership, Engineers, and consumers of security services to identify risks, define and design tactical and strategic risk mitigation plans and execution of these accordingly

Advises and guides product team and helps with project planning by identifying architecturally significant dependencies and guiding the approach to project execution.

Partners with product leadership to develop and establish a product vision and roadmap while ensuring it aligns with the cybersecurity strategy, enterprise technology strategy, and industry trends, inclusive of build vs buy decisions
Partners with key stake holders from Enterprise, Technical and Application Architecture to champion secure by design principles, perform security architecture analysis and help deliver secure and reliable solutions
Builds usable security patterns, security product roadmaps, capability maturity models and other best practice artifacts
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
~8+ Years – Information Security, Engineering, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Technical Architecture or related
~ Internal applicants only:
technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus architecture scale

Experience with Security Operations Center technologies used for- Security Incident Event Management (SIEM), Incident Response, SOC automation, Security analytics, Network Intrusion detection, and email security/DLP.

Cross domain knowledge of more than one component of the Cybersecurity ecosystem- AppSec, Cryptography and Data Security, Endpoint Security, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, and Cloud.

Familiarity with Microsoft M365, Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with hybrid on-premises, co-located, and cloud hosted architectures.
Experience with the shared security model used by cloud service providers.
Industry certifications such as CISSP, SANS/GIAC, AWS, GCP, or Microsoft.


Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
~ Employee Stock Purchase Plan

To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations.

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