Security Architecture Manager

Job Posting End Date 11-26-2026Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

Responsible for medium to long-term assignments of significant complexity and/or budgetary, strategic, or operational impacts. Responsibilities include decision making, risk assessment, task prioritization/assignment/tracking, project assignment, employee development, performance feedback, motivation, team building, communication, planning, resource allocation, cost control, problem/issue/conflict resolution, customer service, and client relations. Decisions are guided by policies, procedures and business plan, receives guidance and oversight from senior manager/Director.

The Security Mgr is responsible for directly managing and developing Security team members, building and sustaining collaborative relationships with Operating Company, Business Unit, and Information Technology (IT) management, and with external partners, suppliers and vendors, and managing annual O&M and capital budgets. The Manager is expected to gain acceptance as a peer and equal partner when working directly with Operating Company, Business Unit, and IT management. The Security Mgr will promote and apply Security solutions to meet the needs and align with the strategies of our Operating Company and Business Unit customers. He/she will lead the team to complete projects/tasks/initiatives and perform all Security work activities via efficient processes, risk reduction, and effective use of resources.

The Security Mgr will establish and maintain an open and collaborative environment that promotes safety, accountability, engagement and continuous improvement within and throughout the Security organization. The significant difference between the Security Mgr roles will be the size of the project or the scope of the process led, the level of risk and complexity involved, the breadth of potential benefit/impact on the department, organization or enterprise, the number of individuals supervised, and the grade levels of those supervised.

Job Description

What you’ll do:

• Lead, develop, and manage the Cybersecurity Architecture team, including staffing, work prioritization, performance management, employee development, and delivery accountability.
• Lead the development and execution of cybersecurity architecture strategy and establish 3–5 year technology roadmaps aligned with business priorities, security objectives, and technology modernization.
• Drive cybersecurity technology portfolio rationalization by identifying capability gaps, overlapping technologies, technical debt, and opportunities to modernize, consolidate, or retire technologies.
• Establish and mature security reference architectures, patterns, standards, and technical guardrails that promote consistent and reusable security solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and direction across cybersecurity architecture, helping architects and technology teams resolve complex design decisions and risks.
• Lead security architecture and design reviews and ensure solutions remain aligned with approved architecture through implementation.
• Manage Architecture demand, priorities, resource assignments, technical decisions, and escalations.
• Partner with technology and business teams to develop secure, practical solutions that balance cybersecurity risk with business needs, cost, complexity, and delivery objectives.
• Build strong relationships across Cybersecurity and Technology and influence enterprise technology decisions through technical credibility and sound judgment.
• Mature the Architecture organization by strengthening its capabilities, practices, measures, talent, and ways of working.
• Communicate cybersecurity architecture strategy, risks, technology direction, and recommendations to technical teams and senior leadership.

What We're Looking For:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or Associate degree combined with a minimum of 2 years of applicable business/technical experience in Security (Cyber and/or Physical), Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field OR a HS diploma/GED combined with a minimum of 4 years of applicable business/technical experience preferably in Security (Cyber and/or Physical), Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.

Experience:

• 10 or more years of Security (Physical and/or Cyber), business administration, computer science, or other technical experience, demonstrating steady progression in responsibilities including 4 or more years of direct supervision experience preferred (in addition to any experience identified above).

Other Preferences and Considerations:

• Some amount of travel to alternate work sites to visit remote employees, if applicable.
• Overtime required on occasion.
• Licenses/Certifications: Applicable technical certifications preferred.
• Helps the team access key measurement data and suggests ways to utilize information for enhanced performance.
• Proactively collects, learns and demonstrates new information about industry and profession from sources outside the organization keeps abreast of professional and industry trends.
• Credible and confident public speaker. Clearly and concisely expresses technical or non-technical ideas.
• Conveys complex information in simple terms, utilizing relevant and meaningful language.
• Promotes diversity in the workplace and sees differences in people as opportunities.
• Identifies gaps in client expectations verses actual service levels.
• Provides solutions to enhance client’s business or mission.
• Excels in customer service.
• Appropriately tailors communication approach to meet client needs.
• Achieves results with both customer and company requirements in mind
• Significant progressive experience in cybersecurity, technology, and security architecture, with demonstrated technical leadership responsibilities.
• Direct people-management experience leading cybersecurity, architecture, engineering, or other technical professionals.
• Demonstrated experience developing cybersecurity technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience assessing technology portfolios and identifying opportunities for modernization, consolidation, capability improvement, or retirement.
• Broad knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity architecture, with deeper expertise in one or more security domains.
• Experience working in complex hybrid enterprise technology environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technology decisions, challenge designs constructively, and work effectively across organizational boundaries.

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Compensation Data

Compensation Grade:

SP20-010

Compensation Range:

$136,539.00 - $177,503.00 The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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