Cybersecurity Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture Strategy and Vision.
• Defines and owns the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy and target-state vision.
• Establishes architectural principles, standards, procedures and controls across the organization.
• Aligns cybersecurity architecture with enterprise business, clinical, and technology strategies.
• Guides long-term cybersecurity investment and modernization decisions.
• Governance, Risk & Regulatory Leadership
• Provides architectural leadership for HIPAA, HITRUST, CMS, PCI DSS, NACHA, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Oversee cybersecurity architecture governance, review boards, and exception processes.
• Partners with risk, compliance, legal, and audit leaders to manage enterprise cybersecurity risk.
• Ensures consistent interpretation and application of cybersecurity controls across domains.
• Complex Architecture and Cross-Domain Design Authority
• Leads cybersecurity architecture for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Resolves design conflicts across applications, cloud, infrastructure, data, and clinical platforms.
• Architects secure integration patterns across legacy and modern ecosystems
• Serves as final escalation point for cybersecurity architecture decisions.
• Cloud, Zero Trust and Advanced Cybersecurity Capabilities
• Drives adoption of zero trust, cloud-native security, and advanced protection models.
• Defines enterprise patterns for identity-centric security, data-centric protection, and observability.
• Evaluates and guides adoption of new cybersecurity technologies and platforms.
• Ensures scalability and resilience of cybersecurity architectures.
• Executive Advisory and Stakeholder Influence
• Acts as a strategic cybersecurity advisor to CTO, CISO, and senior technology leaders.
• Translate complex cybersecurity concepts into business-relevant insights.
• Influences roadmap prioritization and funding through architectural recommendations.
• Represents cybersecurity architecture in enterprise planning and governance forums.
• Talent Development and Architecture Maturity
• Mentor senior analysts and engineers, setting expectations for architectural excellence.
• Builds and evolve cybersecurity architecture practices, methods, and documentation.
• Promotes a culture of secure-by-design and shared accountability.
• Drives continuous improvement of cybersecurity architecture maturity.