Title: Azure Security Architect
Location: Kansas, USA. Remote with periodic participation in project and governance meetings.
Contract
Responsibilities
- Review and challenge solution architectures, designs, and implementation plans.
- Assess solutions for security, resiliency, governance, and operational readiness.
- Evaluate identity, access management, networking, data protection, logging, monitoring, and third-party integrations.
- Conduct architecture and security reviews at key project milestones.
- Identify risks, control gaps, and remediation recommendations.
- Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements related to finance systems.
- Assess ERP/GL, subledger, FP&A, reporting, data platform, integration, and identity/access designs for security and control implications
- Maintain security risks, decisions, assumptions, and control gaps in alignment with program RAID, decision log, and governance processes
- Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Governance, Compliance, Project Management, and external vendors.
- Provide executive-level summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations.
Required Experience
- 10+ years of enterprise architecture and cloud experience.
- 5+ years designing and governing Microsoft Azure environments.
- Strong cybersecurity architecture background, including Zero Trust and cloud security.
- Experience with large transformation programs, ERP/GL implementations, or finance system modernization.
- Experience reviewing security architecture across SaaS, cloud, integration, data platform, and enterprise identity environments
- Ability to translate technical security risks into business-relevant recommendations for program leaders and executives
- Deep knowledge of:
- Azure Architecture & Governance
- Microsoft Entra ID
- RBAC and Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
- Azure Networking
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Data Protection and Security Monitoring
- Experience working with auditors, risk teams, and compliance frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
- CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, TOGAF, or equivalent certifications
- Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SOX controls
Deliverables
- Architecture and security review reports
- Risk and control gap assessments
- Phase-gate security readiness assessments
- Executive presentations and recommendations for program leadership
- Design review participation throughout the program
- Security control traceability and audit-readiness support for finance systems
- Ongoing advisory support for project and governance teams
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of enterprise architecture and cloud experience
- 5+ years designing and governing Microsoft Azure environments
- Strong cybersecurity architecture experience, including Zero Trust and cloud security
- Experience with large transformation programs, ERP/GL implementations, or finance system modernization
- Experience reviewing security architecture across SaaS, cloud, integration, data platform, and enterprise identity environments
- Ability to translate technical security risks into business-relevant recommendations for program leaders and executives
- Knowledge of Azure Architecture and Governance, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Azure Networking, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, data protection, and security monitoring
- Experience working with auditors, risk teams, and compliance frameworks
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification
- CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, TOGAF, or equivalent certification
- Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SOX controls
What We Do
BuzzClan is a technology consulting firm collaborating to provide software, advisory, implementation, transformation and staffing services. We provide systems integration, IT consulting, managed services and workforce solutions to public and private sector clients. BuzzClan is a certified partner for most Tier-1 Cloud, Software & Hardware Providers, including Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft & Saviynt. BuzzClan is committed to providing substantive business value on each and every client engagement. We do this through a combination of industry-specific business expertise, technical skills, proven project management methods and our “onsite - off-site - offshore” delivery model. We strive to work in partnership with our customers to build high-performance teams and create business solutions that will last. Vertically Integrated solutions company Full ownership of the solution The combined experience of more than 250+ years Various OEM Certifications such as OCP, PMP, AWS, MS Azure, etc. Onsite presence across the North American(US & Canada) clients Near-Shore & Offshore presence
