Enterprise Cyber Security Architect

• Define and maintain enterprise security architecture frameworks standards principles and governance models
• Review and provide security design authority for major initiatives including digital banking cloud adoption APIs integrations and third-party systems
• Ensure security is embedded into solution design architecture decisions and technology roadmaps from inception
• Develop and maintain reusable security architecture patterns across identity access management network security cloud security API security encryption logging monitoring and secrets management
• Establish and enforce secure architecture principles for cloud environments including public private hybrid and SaaS platforms
• Review and guide secure cloud onboarding including identity federation encryption monitoring data protection backup and disaster recovery design
• Ensure application and API security requirements are embedded into SDLC CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Guide threat modeling secure design reviews and security controls for high-risk systems and integrations
• Define and govern enterprise-wide data protection and cryptographic standards including encryption key management tokenization masking and secure data sharing
• Design and enforce enterprise identity and access architecture ensuring least privilege privileged access controls federation and segregation of duties
• Lead security architecture governance processes including reviews approvals exceptions and escalation of risks
• Ensure all design assumptions compensating controls and residual risks are clearly documented and tracked
• Collaborate with enterprise architects engineers and delivery teams to ensure alignment between security architecture and solution design
• Support technology strategy by identifying architectural risks technical debt and opportunities for simplification and modernization
• Provide coaching and guidance to technical teams to improve secure design decision-making and architecture maturity

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security Engineering or related field
• Postgraduate qualification is preferred
• Professional certifications such as CISSP SABSA TOGAF CCSP AWS or Azure Security certifications are preferred
• 1520 years of experience in IT cybersecurity or enterprise architecture roles
• At least 10 years of experience in security architecture technical leadership or enterprise design roles
• Strong experience in enterprise-scale systems including cloud applications identity data security and integrations
• Experience in banking or regulated industries is highly preferred
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and security design principles
• Strong ability to balance security requirements with practical delivery needs
• Strong communication skills for both technical and executive stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management influence and advisory capability
• Strong analytical thinking and systems design capability
• Ability to drive adoption of secure architecture standards across diverse teams