Lead Architect - Security Capabilities

Enterprise Architecture Division Enterprise Architect for Security

Division

You will be joining the Enterprise Architecture (EA) division at Euroclear a leading post-trade financial market infrastructure.

The EA division is an experienced and multi-disciplinary group of architects responsible for:

• Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards aligned to the company strategies & goals.
• Defining the investment themes to develop or transform the IT capabilities supporting the business units strategies.
• Maintaining a multi-year strategic investment plan & technology roadmap and advising on IT investment decisions.
• Steering the definition & realization of capabilities and solutions to support business objectives (process applications data and technology) in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions.

Role

You will be joining our Security squad and as Lead Enterprise Architect your role will be to coach and mentor Security Enterprise Architects defining the target and transition architecture and roadmaps for their Security capabilities that provide safety in our interactions with customers markets and in our own operations.

You contribute and help Enterprise Architects deliver the following architectural services:

• Strategy Enablement
  • Assembling and analysing strategic Business and IT objectives and leveraging understanding of external industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on the enterprises strategy direction and architecture
• Lead analysis of current and future-state capabilities and IT environment to detect gaps and opportunities assess new technologies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the enterprise towards its targeted outcomes.
• Facilitating Business and IT alignment and supporting the translation into an executable change roadmap that will realize the strategic objectives and deliver the targeted value outcomes requiring close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Delivering target and/or transition architectures and standards and ensuring they are properly maintained and governed providing viable options and visibility of strategic direction and implications for the enterprise and for steering of delivery.
• Strategy Implementation Oversight
  • Providing transparency on the progress of the capability implementation and alignment with established targets and intended roadmaps.
• Providing transparency on the evolution of Technology Debt and the planning and implementation of mitigation and remediation actions.
• Delivery Planning and Solutions
• Developing clear standards reference architecture patterns principles and guardrails through the EA governance model to support effective and efficient decision-making and provide clarity for delivery initiatives.
• Collaborating with security delivery and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture to leverage shared technologies tools and processes where appropriate and provide continuous feedback towards the further evolution of the enterprise architecture.
• Architecture Advisory
• Providing consultative advice and support adapted to stakeholder context to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to support decision-making on strategy delivery M&A and/or other relevant topics.
• Architecture Practice
  
  • Collaborating with other architects and supporting delivery of transversal architectural topics and contributing to a positive working environment.
  • Contributing to continuous improvement of architectural practice and effective delivery of architectural services.

Profile

• Qualified to coach help and inspire architects in building and maintaining security architecture artifacts fostering a collaborative and supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and professional growth.
• Experienced in establishing processes or organizational structures to standardize the efforts of architects ensuring alignment with company values and the divisions objectives fostering consistency and efficiency in architectural practices.
• Able to design security best practices including architecture principles tools patterns and develop architecture policies standards and solutions.
• Capable to provide guidance and be a facilitatorto ensure that standard security best practices are applied consistently and meaningfully.
• Effective and impactful in sharing experience and visionto build security awareness with business stakeholders IT and operational team
• Experienced in establishing and promote security best practicesto support long-term objectives of infrastructure security.
• Skilled in developing business casesfor major evolutions of IT capabilities and syndicate a wide range of senior stakeholders within business and IT.
• Expert analytical planning and organizational skillsand you are able to connect the dots and navigate in a constantly evolving environment.
• Result-oriented and you collaborate to deliver business outcomes.
• Able to balance out the longer term and short-term views and implications of different options and paths of action.
• Self-motivated eager to learn and you have a proactive working approach.
• Effective leadership skills. A strong team player able to work effectively at various levels of the organization with a strong sense of ownership and ability to influence others to move toward consent.
• Good communicator and you can adapt your messages and style to different audiences and seniority. Fluency in English is required.
• Active listener.
• Active contributor to the different communities and governance bodies as applicable.
• Masters or bachelors degree in business computer science engineering or a related field of study or equivalent experience.
• Good understanding and knowledge of business and technology operating models strategic planning and cost-benefit analysis security and risk management information and data management systems development methodologies and agile principles and frameworks and/or IT service delivery infrastructure and operations.
• You have experience within the Financial Services industry and you have an understanding of the complexity of the regulatory environment considered as a plus.
• You are certified in an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g. TOGAF) and are familiar with Enterprise Architecture tools considered as an advantage.
• You are certified in the area of Security (e.g. CISSP CBCI GIAC ISO 22301/27001 LA/LI) considered as a plus.

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