Associate Director, Cyber Architecture and Engineering

Business Title: Associate Director, Cyber Architecture and Engineering - Remote

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Function: Business Support Services

Area of Interest:

State: MI

City: Detroit

Description:

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, Cyber Architecture and Engineering to join our Enterprise Security Services organization. This is a remote work opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day operational responsibilities of a comprehensive information security strategy that aligns with the firm's goals and objectives as well as apply advanced knowledge of IT security and architecture during its implementation; address the evolving threats to the firm's environment and data effectively; serve as an internal senior trusted advisor providing security consulting services across multiple technical domains to project teams and senior leaders; provide advice on security, explain security risk trade-offs, and solve complex problems through identification of compensating control alternatives while enabling the business
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with multiple internal technology groups to keep alignment on strategies; promote and foster collaboration and standardization across multiple internal federated technology groups based on common technology interests and priorities; become a go-to subject matter professional to others within the firm to achieve the required goals and objectives
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with multiple public and private cloud vendors to advocate for product enhancements to meet the firm's needs and inform internal stakeholders of forthcoming features of interest; research and develop information security controls, security configuration baselines, and security design patterns that support risk assessments and the development of secure (or cloud-based) architectures and/or application development
• Stay abreast with emerging trends and technologies in information security, and continuously evaluate and improve the organization's security posture through evaluation of the latest information security regulatory requirements, technologies, controls, practices, techniques, and threats; facilitate internal skills development activities for information security personnel on new technologies, controls, practices, techniques, and threats
• Participate in internal focus groups to provide security expertise and guidance on the development of new and emerging technologies (for example, Generative AI and Metaverse), ensuring that security requirements are defined and integrated into the design process; create business cases and conduct presentations to senior IT leadership of proposed security products, studies, and roadmaps
• Provide active coaching, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing with junior staff to advance their career development; and manage and review those team members' work product; contribute to planning for short term needs, such as projects and processes; construct annual plan for deployment of those resources; open to possibility of people management responsibility for a small to mid-sized team of entry level through intermediate level professionals

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight years of recent security architecture experience, with deep technical expertise across multiple technical domains, including application development, cloud computing, security, identity and access management, IT infrastructure, and emerging technologies such as Generative AI; preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; certifications requirements: CISSP and either CCSP or CCSK, or equivalent industry experience; other certifications of importance: AZ-500 - Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS Certified Security - Specialty MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Experience in both designing and securing solutions in a complex and regulated enterprise environment to offer solutions in an 'as-a-service' model; demonstrated ability to not only define security requirements but help teams implement them through collaborative architecture and engineering ensuring that security is integrated into all aspects of the solution design and implementation process; proven capability to design creative alternatives to work around gaps in vendor offerings to meet technical and security requirements
• Deep understanding of data center architecture (network, security, compute) and cloud computing architecture, technical design, and implementations, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as Service (SaaS), and containerized delivery models across multiple different cloud vendors
• Experience and implementation of modern solution delivery methodologies including Agile and DevSecOps and incorporating security into the overall system development lifecycle; able to define, document, and peer review technical security standards such as: cloud security best practices, operating systems security best practices, application security best practices, wireless network security best practices, and more; experience with security related regulatory requirements, such as NIST, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA compliance
• Excellent verbal/written communication, collaboration, analytical and presentation skills to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and take lead in an environment driven by customer service and teamwork; must be able to set goals and participate in strategic initiatives for a team; strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. US citizenship required.

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