Cloud Security Architect - IS Mod

Mayo Clinic•Rochester, MN

2d•$107,453 - $150,426•Hybrid

About The Position

The role of the Cloud Security Architect demands business intellect, technical acuity, and the ability to think, communicate, and write at various levels of abstraction, business acumen, and technical capacity. The Cloud Security Architect is a resource to identify and resolve technology-related information security gaps based on the organization's risk posture with guidance and input from peers. This is accomplished by maintaining a focus on cloud security while retaining enterprise security functions. This individual embraces teamwork, collaboration, and consensus driven decision making and has seasoned negotiation and influencing skills. The Cloud Security Architect will implement, with guidance from Senior and Principal Cloud Security Architects, the following key functional areas:

Requirements

Business intellect
Technical acuity
Ability to think, communicate, and write at various levels of abstraction
Business acumen
Technical capacity
Teamwork
Collaboration
Consensus driven decision making
Seasoned negotiation and influencing skills

Responsibilities

Serve as an information security liaison to business leaders, executive sponsors, senior service/product owners, and third parties.
Lead information security efforts by guiding work throughout projects, initiatives, program increments, workshops, design/solution sessions, and consulting work.
Collaborate with senior leaders across engineering, enterprise architecture, OIS, and development practices to solve complex problems and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Lead efforts that relate to creating and updating cloud and enterprise information security policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices.
Advocate for the use of strong security principles and strategies throughout the organization.
Identify, prioritize, and escalate areas of inefficiencies, high risk information security practices, or sub-optimal operational outcomes and consult on strategies to remediate.
Help drive consensus on relevant strategies or initiatives with stakeholders, customers, and business leaders to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
Work with a high level of autonomy while keeping the CISO, security leadership, and OIS informed of risks, new work, roadblocks, and organizational developments.
Maintain strong relationships by guiding customers and stakeholders on the applicability of security architecture as it relates to their area of responsibility.
Develop and defend security architectures or strategic security direction to executive leaders, customers, stakeholders, and technical implementation teams.
Identify, help prioritize, and justify work efforts to IT, solution architects, enterprise architects, engineers, and analysts.
Represent management and communicate OIS strategy as the technical lead for projects and cross departmental efforts within research, education, patient care, and with external partners.
Maintain a reputation of positive leadership throughout OIS and act as a mentor and trainer to OIS colleagues.