• Ensure that security is natively incorporated into the organization’s cloud operating environment and that these environments are sufficiently armored to defend against modern cyber threats.
• Maintains current knowledge of emerging cyber threats, new technologies, compliance requirements, and recommends cyber security enhancements and purchases that allows our organization to maintain healthy and functional systems.
• Architecture and development of automation and orchestration across cryptographic frameworks
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensuring that the delivery of the Platform aligns to longer-term strategic roadmap
• Define and communicate the technology direction by collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to establish and maintain Architecture Roadmaps. These define the target architecture direction and high-level roadmap for cryptographic platforms that will benefit multiple business divisions and organizations
• Lead efforts to prioritize, establish and maintain cryptographic Principals and design patterns to promote reuse, improve stability and improve security
• Partner with technology leaders and subject matter experts in the security space to providing guidance during architecture design activities of new and existing capabilities.
• Conduct architectural risk and impact assessments of the IT Application environments.
• Research and evaluate proposed business solutions for adherence to documented company standards, policies, and regulatory responsibilities.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and Business Units to implement and support existing and future solutions.
• Determine security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements, researching information security standards, conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments, and identifying integration issues.
• Operate as a security subject matter expert with regards to strengths and weaknesses of the cloud environments and being able to recommend improvements to both software and hardware.
• Identify security standards and formalizing security architecture design patterns to mitigate threats
• Assess emerging technologies against security architecture to determine where they fill gaps, overlap with existing solutions, or extend capabilities

• 5+ years in system, cloud, security administration, controls, or information management experience and/or Security Engineer/Architect/Consultant
• 5+ of security architecture experience in Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon AWS.
• Experience with assessment, development, implementation, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive and broad set of security technologies and processes (secure software development (Application Security), data protection, cryptography, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security) within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID, etc.).
• Experience with service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services.
• Experience working with cloud security and governance tools, cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and server virtualization technologies. Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Experience with building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders, clients, peers, supervisors, subordinates, and other internal company staff
• Experience creating an enterprise architecture (application, data, and technical) that is aligned to business and IT imperatives.
• Familiarity with security industry standards (ISO 17799, ISO 27001/2, ISO 31000, NIST 800 series, etc.)
• Experience with internal controls, risk assessments, business process and internal IT control testing or operational auditing
• Experience in defining and implementing cloud security and solid understanding of best practices
• Influencing experience at senior levels within an organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Industry experiences in financial services preferred
• Bachelor's degree (Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred)
• CISSP other relevant security certifications and knowledge of ISO and NIST security standards preferred

Harvard Partners is a management consulting firm focused on helping companies more effectively leverage their IT investment. We engage with the C-Suite and Technology Team to help them better understand their IT infrastructure and process in order to align the technology strategy and organization to reach the firm’s strategic business goals.Some of our practices include:• Program/Project Management and "PMO as a Service"• IT Assessments• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery• Optimized Infrastructure• Concierge Managed Services• Data Center Strategy, Transformation, and Migration• Cloud Management Programs• Security Assessments and Remediation• Staffing, technical & tacticalWorking with the client’s staff, vendors, and consultants, we deliver supportive and collaborative engagements where direct dialog, simplified reporting, productive meetings, and clear responsibility and accountability encourage active participation resulting in consensus-based business outcomes.