Head of Security Architecture

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Regional Head of Security Architecture and Engineering is a senior technical member of the security organization and will play a pivotal role in guiding and setting direction for the companys security architectural and strategic activities. You will ensure that all acquired or developed systems and architectures align with the companys Information Security policies standards and guidelines. Your responsibilities will involve performing security reviews identifying gaps developing risk management plans and delivering strategic goals for technology infrastructure. This role requires a blend of deep technical knowledge with hands-on experience strategic vision and effective communication skills to guide and influence security practices and architectural decisions within the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Security Architecture Guidance:
  • Serve as the senior technical expert in security architecture.
  • Provide guidance and set direction for security-related architectural and strategic activities.
• Security Reviews and Risk Management:
  • Conduct Security Architecture reviews to ensure alignment with company policies and standards.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to perform security reviews identify gaps and develop risk management plans and recommendations.
• Strategic Development:
  • Develop long-term strategic goals for technology infrastructure services.
  • Evaluate security architectures and designs to ensure they meet business objectives.
• Reference Architectures:
  • Develop and document secure by design reference architectures.
  • Define protection needs security controls and governance frameworks for managing technology.
• Security Control Assessment:
  • Assess security controls for software applications and systems within the company.

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Technical Expertise:
  • Extensive experience in technical infrastructure security assessments and design.
  • Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies standards and products.
• Knowledge Areas:
  • Applications networks firewall storage and IDM concepts (e.g. authentication message scanning privacy cryptography).
  • Cloud Infrastructures
  • Industry-standard and organizational risk analysis principles.
  • Enterprise IT architectural concepts and patterns.
  • Ability to determine how security systems should operate and their resilience.
  • Understanding of IT/risk management techniques.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in cybersecurity principles including network security application security identity and access management data protection and threat intelligence.
• Proven experience designing and implementing complex security architectures across diverse technology environments.
• Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to motivate and develop technical talent.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of relevant security certifications (e.g. CISSP CISA CISM) preferred

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.