Senior Architect - Connecticut, United States - Lumen

Description

We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications - quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up - committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. Lumen's commitment to workplace inclusion and employee support shines bright.

We've made the Newsweek 2024 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity list and achieved a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the fifth consecutive year.

Plus, we're the top employer in the communications and telecom industry, ranking 12th overall across all industries in The American Opportunity Index.

The Security Solutions Architect is a senior level position in Lumen's Technology Architecture organization with responsibility for providing expert-level information security advisory and security architectural solution support for large, complex, and technologically difficult security solutions.

This is a highly visible role with our Technology Architect Group requiring a security consultant mindset, ability to partner, and direct contact with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

This role's success requires having the ability to provide simplified security messaging, detailed understanding of operational delivery; and a broad perspective on information security topics.

Provides overall definition, direction, and strategic design for customer driven PSS solutions in collaboration with enterprise, state, local, and federal stakeholders.

Provides thought leadership to develop, build, solution, and package Lumen Professional Security Services for consumption by end customer and IT security professionals.

supporting material for a wide variety of stakeholders and technical backgrounds.

Operates in multiple theaters from: security operations and delivery activities to customer engagement, sales support, and solution shaping in order to achieve Lumen and customer business goals.

Assesses broad trends in the IT security space and proposes, develops, and tailor complex solutions that address evolving customer requirements or landscapes.

Provides security domain thought leadership across various Security technologies and service offerings. Positions Lumen security with whitepapers or other security strategist level positioning documents.
Demonstrates knowledge of end-to-end information security strategies, standards, processes, and tools necessary for security solution design.
Demonstrates security advisory, thought leadership, and technical security competencies for customers, sales, operations teams and other security stakeholders.

Leads, guides, shapes, delivers, effectively messages, and presents clear solution designs in partnership and support from security engineers, security solutions architects, technical writers, and other stakeholders.

Creates architectural design documents, graphics, visual representations, and other

The professional in this position can work from home when not in client and team meetings. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania.

Provide security subject matter expertise, while transforming unclear business requirements into a clear, detailed, and documented security service solution.

Understand the impact of security requirements on technical solutions and architectures.

Guide and work with all the necessary security points of contact (internally and externally) to build consensus on chosen technical approaches and paths.

Create standardized architectural diagrams, artifacts, presentation decks, business justifications, deliverables, statement of work, level of effort, pricing, and security solution collateral material.

Ten plus years of experience as an information security professional,
Deep experience leading security solutioning exercises and teasing out security requirements for traceability purposes.

Solid understanding of security tasks and functions related to networking, Cloud, DevOps, and security platforms in highly complex corporate IT infrastructure environments.

Working knowledge is expected in multiple security disciplines including:
Security Strategy and Architecture consulting
Security Awareness and Training
Data Protection
Able to successfully interact with audiences that may include senior executives, IT security leadership, and technical staff. Experience leading, writing, managing, and positioning security services for end customers.
Passionate about Information Security and demonstrated success with complex solutions.
Willingness to learn and become proficient in new technologies, products, processes, and services.
Maintain a technical skill set that that matches the evolving security of Lumen customers and corresponding security services.
Excellent written, verbal, and executive level presentation skills.
Ability to travel in support of meetings, presentations, conferences, and similar events.
Highly passionate about information security and how it enables businesses succeed.
Bachelor's Degree in related field with preferable focus on Cybersecurity and/or equivalent experience.
CISSP, GSEC, CISM, CISA, and/or comparable security certifications.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses").

We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.

It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job.