Enterprise Security Architect (Independent Contractor) – Brusse

Enterprise Security Architect (Independent Contractor) – Brussels

Rate: Circa €800 – €1000

Length: 1-year contract

Working Flexibility: One day from home or in a office abroad from time to time (no regular weekly homeworking).

You will be joining the Enterprise Architecture Technology Strategy division.
The Enterprise Architecture team (EA) is a multi-disciplinary group of experienced architects in charge of:

• Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards aligned to the company strategies & goals,
• Creating business cases to develop or transform the IT capabilities supporting the business units’ strategies,
• Maintaining a multi-year IT plan & technology roadmap, and providing steer for the decisions on IT investments,
• Defining IT architecture solutions (integrated process, applications, data and technology) to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions and guiding the IT development teams during solution realization.

Your Profile: Enterprise Security Architect (Independent Contractor) – Brussels

We are looking for a multi-disciplined, Tech-savvy and dynamic colleague to join our “Security Enterprise Architecture team”, who is eager to participate in the development of EA function as the thought leader and work collaboratively with all business and IT partners to make them successful in achieving their ambitions.

• You take a contributing role in define the vision and propose strategies to support the long-term Security objectives for the Group
• You take a leading role in building security architecture artifacts (capability maps, Logical application views, reference architectures) based on sound enterprise architecture practices, that can be used for providing guidance to solution architects in their business solution design activities.
• You track developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that they’re adequately addressed in strategic plans and architecture artefacts
• You maintain security technology and “defense in depth” oversight, spanning IT (on premise and cloud), vendor products, infrastructure, application architectures and development methodologies
• You will develop effective working relationships with other enterprise architects and delivery functions, ensuring overall strategic and architectural alignment.
• You collaborate to develop business cases for evolving our IT and Security related capabilities and to perform impact analysis, thereby engaging a wide range of stakeholders across business and IT at senior level.
• You work under broad management direction.
• You contribute to the continuous improvement of the Enterprise Architecture processes in
• You have worked for more than 10 years in the IT industry
• Working experience in the wholesale financial IT sector is a plus
• You have worked several years as an Enterprise architect in companies comparable
• You have worked as a Security professional demonstrating practical experience in security governance
• You have experience and extensive knowledge of the Security landscape, business operations, information landscape, application platforms & technical infrastructure, a thorough understanding of the software development processes.
• You have experience in using architecture methodologies such as SABSA, Zachman and TOGAF
• You have an understanding of Standards and frameworks like the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001/2 and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

Having a Security certification like CISM, CISA is a plus
The Enterprise security architect is expected to contribute his/her insights not only to colleagues within the Enterprise architecture department, but also to colleagues within Cyber Security management, Internal Audit, risk management and other line-of-business teams. To ensure that security-related matters are adequately conveyed, the following skills are required:
* Strategic planning skills
* Communication skills
* Conceptual thinking
* Agile architecting
* Thought leadership
* Seeking different perspectives

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