Cyber Architect Consultant

Immediate need for a talented Cyber Architect Consultant. This is a 12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Raleigh ,NC (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
 
Job ID:24-48259
 
Pay Range: $117 - $121/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Architecting effective and efficient fit for purpose solutions that meet the Bank’s needs and requirements - includes creation of Cybersecurity Blueprints that will present detailed views of application interaction/integrations between both on prem and cloud based applications.
• Applies in-depth and specialized expertise in Identity and Access Management and significant breadth of experience across cyber / information security.
• May be called upon to contributed to scope and business cases.
• Participates in the gathering and development of requirements by coaching stakeholders and decomposing business requirements into technical and system requirements.
• Interrupt requirements to determine the best solutions and approaches.
• Creates architectures and operational documentation with support of engineering and operations staff.
• Participate in the overall Identity ecosystem convergence activities for Client from the heritage Banks.
• Advise, consult, lead, guide and mentor project teams, engineers, analysts, and support staff in the delivery of solutions.
• Participate in the agile planning processes and delivery methodologies.
• Build relationships with internal clients.
• Conducts threat modeling and security gap assessment exercises in concert with other teams.
• Create reusable patterns for reoccurring cyber challenges.
• Contributes to the creation of policy, standards, Minimum Security Baselines (MSBs), procedures and guidelines.
• Bring visibility to and escalates security risks, as well as, technical, execution, deployment or other risks as applicable.
• Lead Proof of Concept/Value Exit Read outs by communicating results and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Conducts post-mortem reviews of projects / products to measure design versus implementation differentials.
• Contribute to the Client Cyber Architecture Practice by supporting Cyber Enterprise Architecture objectives.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills:AWS Cloud, DDoS, WAF, MFA, Application security ,  OWASP, Transit encryption, storage encryption, Hash, KMS, Digital Signature, Federated Identity Management, identity Providers , Single Sign On (SSO) .
• Certification: CISSP-ISSAP, AWS, AZURE, SANS or TOGAF certifications.
• Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings).
• Mergers and acquisitions experience.
• Consulting or professional services backgrounds are a plus.
• Financial services industry experience is a major plus.
• Masters degree in: Computer Science, Information Systems, Security, or other closely related field.
• Ideal candidate will also have experience in the following areas .
• Containerization, Micro-services, API, CI/CD.
• Content Delivery technologies.
• CRM Technology – Eloqua, Oracle, Acoustic.
• Adobe Experience Platform.
• Mobile Application Development.
• Fintech integration.
• Understanding of Security foundations and Standards such as hardening, least privilege, attack surface reduction, NIST SP800-series, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, FISMA/FedRAMP, ISO 27000, PCI-DSS, CIS Benchmarks, and similar.
• Applies in-depth and specialized expertise and/or a significant breadth of expertise in own professional discipline and other related disciplines.
• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
• Mentors less experienced teammates to build their own technical expertise. Impacts the achievement of client, operational, project, service, and risk management objectives.
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex and unusual situations.
• Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings).
• Specific solution expertise is desired in the following areas:
• Digital Commerce, Digital Banking and Financial Systems architecture
• Large data management architecture and integrations
• Attack protection and mitigation technologies – DDoS, WAF, Bot, etc.
• AWS Cloud - application migration, fit for purpose, etc.
• Multifactor authentication, Risk Based Authentication
• Application authentication models
• Application Security – OWASP control and evaluation criteria
• Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
• Cryptographic technology – Transit encryption, storage encryption, Hash, KMS, Digital Signature, etc.
• Federated Identity Management / Identity Providers / Single Sign On (SSO)
• Client authentication approaches for “anti-bot” technologies, signaling, and fraud prevention.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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