Security Architect

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

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Atlanta based, hybrid schedule - 3 days a week in office

Role Summary

The IT Security Architect works with teams to deliver new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The IT Security Architect helps set the security designs and parameters that delivery teams operate within. In addition, the IT Security Architect helps build and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, confidentiality, availability, quality, integrity, security, maintainability, and compliance.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads the security-focused architectural efforts of large, complex projects (e.g., a family of products or IT services) involving multiple vendors, multiple technologies, leading‐edge technologies, and broad implications for architecture and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.

• Innovate Security Solutions: Recommend cutting-edge security technologies to enhance IHG’s security posture, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

• Conduct Comprehensive Assessments: Perform gap assessments between current implementations and policies and standards.

• Lead Strategic Development: Oversee the creation and review of policies, standards, and controls, while managing the architectural lifecycle and ensuring compliance with validated designs.

• Collaborate and Analyze: Engage with diverse teams and senior management to analyze system risk end-to-end and prescribe security architectural solutions, all while staying updated on the latest security trends

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience

Typically, a minimum of 10+ years of work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple related disciplines, technologies, or processes.

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of the key principles of Information Security, Risk Management, Proactive Security, Crisis Management, Business Continuity.

• Familiarity with and understanding of industry-standard security and regulatory frameworks and the application of controls to IT and security architecture (e.g., NIST SP 800-53/-171, ISO-2700X, NIST CsF, NISPOM, NISP RMF, HIPAA, SOX, and/or PCI DSS).

• Knowledge of AI security topics, including securing generative AI and machine learning systems.

• Understanding of IT hosting models (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) and associated security issues.

• Ability to propose secure solutions for cloud and AI implementations.

• Proficient in the lifecycle of technical systems: design, security, deployment, and maintenance.

• Familiarity with DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies.

• Strong analytical skills to assess information and draw conclusions.

• Understanding of security's role in protecting IHG's brand.

• Ability to meet tight deadlines and adapt to changing conditions.

• Critical thinking and decision-making skills under uncertainty.

• Capability to influence and collaborate across organizational levels.

• Experience in influencing multi-disciplinary teams.

• Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proactive problem identification and process improvement recommendations.

• Strong customer service orientation and commitment to satisfaction.

• Project management experience in large-scale initiatives.

• Analytical, results-focused, and action-oriented mindset.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual’s, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued.

We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams, and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.

The salary range for this role is $100,000 to $175,000. This is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

**This job is also eligible for bonus pay.

At IHG, we believe in taking care of our employees. That's why we offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k, and any other benefits to eligible employees. We want you to feel secure and cared for, so you can focus on bringing True Hospitality to the world.

You can apply for this role through the link below (or through an internal career site if you are a current employee).

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.