Cybersecurity Architect

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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Job Responsibilities:

- Serve as a trusted security advisor with business unit leadership.
- Act as a liaison to ensure cybersecurity practices are built into business unit initiatives for the entire lifecycle.
- Act as a trusted point of contact across business units.
- Be actively informed and engaged in security projects across the business.
- Provide disaster recovery and business continuity planning advice when working with leaders for business and cybersecurity resiliency.
- Enforce the strong security culture set forth by the CISO, ensuring uniformity across business units and employees.
- Foster strong relationships with internal business units and excel in cybersecurity communication.
- Advise business units on enterprise-wide people, process and technology security recommendations.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge related to security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations set forth to reduce the attack surface; circulate this knowledge through the business units.
- Ensure business projects are focused on cybersecurity from the beginning.
- Identify and document threats and vulnerabilities that may impact the business and address them regularly with business units.
- In conjunction with security and business leaders, define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics aligning with business initiatives and deliver them to non-technical teams in terms that are accessible and comprehensible.
- Provide motivation to business units to adopt cybersecurity controls.
- Remove complexity and obstacles that hinder efficient security controls enterprise-wide.
- Stay abreast of new laws, regulations and standards, and assess their impact to the business.
- Verify security content training initiatives and internal/external communication are conducted regularly.
- Openly support the CISO, management team and executive leadership, even during tumultuous times.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Responsibilities:

- 15+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience with minimum 5 years as Cybersecurity Architect or Lead Engineer.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Assurance, Computer Science or related fields.
- Relevant certifications preferred including CISSP, CISM, GSEC, etc.
- Capable of working with diverse teams and promoting an enterprise-wide positive security mindset/culture..
- Adept at understanding business focus and processes and ability to inject cybersecurity into the business through teamwork and influence..
- Experience collaborating with IT teams to implement technology solutions that enable business initiatives and reduce risk.
- Knowledge of a relevant enterprise architecture methodology.
- Ability to determine key security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studying architecture/platform; and identifying integration issues.
- Ability to translate design into bill of materials and preparing cost estimates.
- Knowledge of a relevant Cloud architecture standards, methodology, and technology.
- Expert knowledge of security issues, techniques and implications.
- General understanding of project management best practices.
- Ability to translate technical designs into bill of materials for procurement, collaborate with procurement team, draft Request for Quote/Purchase/Information (RFQ/RFP/RFI), and manage vendor relationships.
- Familiarity of SSDLC (Secure Software Development Life Cycle) or SDL (Secure Development Lifecycle).
- Experience assisting with third-party risk assessments and security control design validation.
- Experience performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for control failures and advising IT Management with risk treatment plans.
- Able to deliver quality results in a high-energy/high-pressure environment.
- Ability to multi-task and manage demands of many projects, issues, and tasks.
- Ability to perform duties with mínimal supervision.
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience performing research and communicating findings to technical and non-technical audience.
- Ability to credibly speak with clients regarding requests for information, integration, risk management, and compliance.
- Experience technically leading a