Cybersecurity Architect Details

Cybersecurity Architect

Zions Bancorporation - West Valley City, UT

Employment Type : Full-Time

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. We operate in a fast-paced, information-driven environment, which means we need people who bring diverse experiences, perspectives, and expertise to meet the ever-changing demands of a technology-driven world. We are grounded in the belief that “improving the work is the work” as we drive to create simple, easy, and fast solutions for our customers. Your ability to adapt, learn, and innovate helps increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and mitigates risk.

ETO provides opportunities for you to own your career growth through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Women in Technology, and Workforce of the Future initiatives that allow you to network across the organization, volunteer in our community, and build your technical and soft skills. Together we are building a culture that values diversity and creates a space of belonging for all our team members. We believe that investing in your success is an investment in our customers and our business. Our people are what sets us apart and make us great.

We are currently seeking a technical Cybersecurity Architect to join our cybersecurity architecture practice. In this role, you will focus on cybersecurity control design, technical standards, and consultative work to ensure the bank’s existing and planned cybersecurity control architecture effectively secures the bank while also enabling business growth. We are looking for experience designing technical cybersecurity controls and defining standards in key areas such as public cloud, data protection, identity, and application design. Strong communication skills and the ability to lead through influencing are also critical success factors for the role.

Responsibilities:
Develop multidisciplinary cybersecurity domain strategies and principles
Provide end-to-end security architecture assessments, diagrams, and documentation using threat modeling frameworks and methodologies
Conduct and facilitate cybersecurity architecture reviews with multiple internal/external teams and stakeholders
Review and approve secure architectures, provide guidance, insight, and feedback on new security technologies
Develop reference architectures and related secure design patterns that will be leveraged by the enterprise
Establish future-state cybersecurity multidisciplinary architecture design patterns that consider business, information, application, infrastructure and security perspectives
Identify current and emerging technologies, risk, and threat trends and design countermeasures with layered defense strategies
Research new security technologies and understand the current threat intelligence landscape to provide actionable guidance
Analyze security threats and incidents for continuous architecture and controls improvements
Develop and manage the adoption and enforcement of security standards and best practices
Design technical controls and solutions for a variety of information systems based on industry best practices and guidelines (e.g., NIST CSF, CSA, CIS, OWASP)
Influence change and lead strategic enterprise IT cybersecurity initiatives aligned with business objectives
Provide well-versed industry and security expertise and lead business leaders and project teams to optimal and compliant solutions
Communicate effectively with business leaders and technical experts at all organizational levels through verbal and written communication.
Cultivate a shared strategic vision, articulate clear business objectives, and align the organization to achieve them.
Prepare and present accurate and timely information in response to audits and regulatory exams; institute a proactive culture to align activities and measurement with internal policy and regulatory requirements
Maintain technical expertise in multiple technical domains.