Principal Information Security Application Architect Santander Consumer Usa
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Overview Essential Functions:

* Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms.
* Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
* Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.
* Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
* Participates in security governance processes.
* Participates in Information Security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
* Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
* Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
* Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
* Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
* Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
* Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.
* May participate in investigation and report contribution of security threats and incidents.
* May assist in conducting post-event reviews of security incidents.
* Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
* Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
* Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
* Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects.
* Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
* Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.
* Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
* Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.

Other Functions:

* Special projects as requested
* Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements: ·Ten (10) or more years of experience in multiple domains of Information Security ·Five (5) to seven (7) years of management experience ·4 or more years of work experience as a Senior Architect working on progressively complex IT projects preferably in financial services environments. ·Bachelor's degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience ·Highly developed proficiency in creating architectural designs for gradually complex designs ·Highly adept at consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation ·Demonstrated ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance ·Experience and understanding of a variety of operating systems ·Highly adept at innovating and thinking beyond established standards and processes ·Advanced knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology security solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements ·Demonstrated effective decision-making skills related to implementing security architecture and design ·Expertise in Information Security procedures. ·Expertise in control frameworks and control objectives ·In depth experience with common information management systems ·Demonstrated experience with defense in depth, trust levels, privileges and permissions ·In-depth knowledge of development practices of security technologies ·Demonstrated leadership skills through project or technical leadership experience ·Demonstrated ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives ·In-depth business process knowledge of several key business functional areas ·Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences Preferred:

* Large complex multi-national Financial Services industry related experience
* Information Security certifications (CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP)

Working Conditions:

* Extended working hours may be required as dictated by management and business needs.
* Travel to multiple facilities may be required.
* May be required to lift, push, or pull materials weighing up to twenty (20) pounds.
* May be required to sit and review information on a computer screen for long periods of time.
* May require repetitive motions of the hands and wrist related to writing and typing at an electronic keyboard.
* Corporate / satellite office role.

Employer's Rights:

This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.

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