At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's the role?
We're looking for a Senior Director, Security Architecture to deliver on a vision to protect our clients and maintain their trust through world-class and innovative cybersecurity and risk management services.
As the Senior Director, Security Architecture, you will be responsible for directing a team of security architects responsible for designing security solutions that protect the business, while allowing them to execute and innovate. You will work closely with many diverse and dynamic teams, including, but not limited to, cybersecurity defense and operations, infrastructure and engineering teams, application developers, and enterprise architecture. This role requires deep technical expertise across multiple security domains and will be responsible for providing end to end Security Solutions covering a broad range of security technologies and platforms to deliver secure business-to-business initiatives, third-party relationships, outsourced solutions, and vendors.
This role will require collaboration with various business partners throughout the enterprise to ensure effective delivery of security architecture services. A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate organizational agility and political savvy while forming positive relationships and navigating across a large organization.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a Security Architecture program that enables the enterprise to identify and implement security solutions and capabilities that are aligned to organizational, technology and cyber threat drivers.
• Provide thought leadership in driving Security Architecture across the enterprise.
• Help mature the EIRC organization and overall enterprise security posture by performing security architecture reviews and assessing control efficiency while partnering with technology teams to ensure industry standard and best practice platform, network, cloud, application, and endpoint security.
• Support the overall EIRC mission, strategy, and delivery of objectives.
• Define key security architectural patterns and control solutions and drive them across the organization.
• Build strong working relationships and work closely with technical and enterprise architecture teams to ensure that security is well integrated into the environment.
• Support large and complex initiatives with a focus on problem solving and delivering results.
• Interpret and apply understanding of policy, process, architecture, regulatory, audit and compliance implications to assist the development of technical solutions or controls.
• Maintain a deep understanding and application of security concepts at a technical level.
• Provide reporting and metrics, as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• At least 10 + years' experience in cybersecurity, including compliance and risk management with a background in security engineering and/or architecture.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience architecting security solutions including SIEM systems, threat intelligence platforms, security automation and orchestration solutions, IDS/IPS, file integrity monitoring (FIM), data loss prevention (DLP) and other network and system monitoring tools.
• Deep understanding of common authentication protocols and frameworks
• Solid grasp of the regulatory and compliance landscape for large financial services institutions
• Effective communicator with both technical and non-technical partners
• Skilled at influencing and working across organizational boundaries
• Experienced leader and mentor to architects

Education Requirements

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• CISSP and/or SANS certification preferred

Beyond base salary, NM offers the following benefits; pension, 401k, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, annual bonus opportunity, and much more!
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