Lead - Security Architecture

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Security Architect role is accountable for driving security initiatives for the organization. Under limited supervisions, you will work with a wide variety of business stakeholders and IT professionals (including different Security functions, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Infrastructure, and Cloud Engineering teams) to ensure organizational security needs/controls are aligned to support business goals and objectives. Define security functional requirements and non-functional requirements to meet the business objectives of a solution Work with stakeholders in setting the technical direction, selection, and evaluating candidate security solutions Work with stakeholders to design and document the conceptual and detailed designs of security solutions Lead the development of security standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines Assess effectiveness of security controls i.e. data protection, IAM, detective controls, infrastructure/network security, incident response. Work on identifying and driving implementation of appropriate controls, processes, and remediation of non-compliance Research and advocate new technologies, architectures, and security products that will support security maturity roadmap Act as a subject matter expert for advisory, review and approval of security designs, configurations, baselines, and technical standards Create and review threat models using various approaches such as off the shelf tools, whiteboarding etc. Good to have hands on Microsoft Threat Model and SD Element or any other open source threat modelling tools Interfaces frequently with information security industry groups to stay abreast of emerging security trends Helps establish overall enterprise information security architecture (EISA) by aligning business processes, IT software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations, and projects with the organization’s overall security strategy Evaluates proposals to determine if proposed security solutions effectively address enterprise requirements, as detailed in solicitation documents Interprets and/or approves security requirements relative to the capabilities of new information technologies.