Your Role and Responsibilities
Key duties:
- The duties outline the tasks and goals for which the Security Architect is responsible:
- Strong leadership, project and team-building skills, including the ability to lead teams and drive projects and initiatives for multiple lines of business
- Advise, Design, implement enterprise-class security systems for production environments, both internal and external to IBM
- Align company standards, frameworks and security with overall business and technology strategy
- Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats
- Design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
- Create solutions that balance business requirements with company information and IBM security requirements
- Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
- Exceptional communication skills with diverse audiences – Strong critical thinking, analytical skills and empathy
- General skills include:
- Business Awareness: You have an understanding about the business that you’re trying to secure. For example, working knowledge of cloud technologies, the ablity to describe what the security concerns and impact might be for an organization looking to move from on-premises compute to public cloud
General skills include:
- Business Awareness: You have an understanding about the business that you’re trying to secure. For example, working knowledge of cloud technologies, the ablity to describe what the security concerns and impact might be for an organization looking to move from on-premises compute to public cloud
- Distributed Systems / Software Design: understand the compromises that teams make every day in order to make things work. Security Architects should have strong opinions about the right way to build
- Threats, Risks, and Modeling: know the difference between threats and risks. The ability to understand what organizations need to protect, who they need to protect it from, and how that protection should work
- Vulnerabilities and Exploitation: the ability to discern between a weakness, flaw, or error found within a system, software, host, etc that has the potential to be leveraged by an attacker in order to compromise a network, application, an infrastructure, etc.
- Focus of Collaboration: being personable, approachable, and empathetic are extremely valuable qualities in a Security Architect. The Security Architect role requires a lot of cooperation and engagement within the organization and lines of businesses that they support
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Advise and experience with Info Technologies & SEC Techniques
- Experience with IBM Security Portfolio & Experience
- Experience with IT SEC Risk Management Methodologies & Tools
- Experience and apply SEC Concepts & Principles
- Experience with Architect SEC Subsystems
Depending on the area of work, the Security Architect may perform evaluation and selection of the components, design of hardware, software, process and service components of the solution, assurance of deployment architectures, and guide secure engineering practices in development.