Enterprise Security Architect – Data Protection

Key Responsibilities:  

• Define objectives, technical work, and timeline for developing data protection architectures, roadmaps, and requirements, while developing and maintaining security architecture and identifying design problems within the data protection domain

• Develop and enforce security policies and procedures related to data protection across Novartis businesses to meet business and regulatory requirements

• Design security measures and overall data protection architecture for the IT landscape in line with the ISC policy framework

• Support data protection projects from evaluation to implementation and assist the delivery of the operational model

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and vendors

• Provide ongoing support to maintain the data protection domain’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies

• Research and evaluate new data protection technologies, support the direction of technological research by learning the organizational goals, strategies and business drivers

• Design and maintain architecture views, models, and target architectures, create architectural description including reasons for architectural decisions and considerations

• Responsible for architecture in IT solutions with great impact for the business strategic projects or programs

• Break down the strategic objectives to requirements on the solution portfolio and target architecture, and make strategic technology choices, directly supervising the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components

• Work with improvements, by participation in the development, of the architectural principles, processes, and standards

• Secure and support the overall architectural quality and perform validation and approval of Architecture artifacts

• Resolve cross-processes and cross-portfolio architectural concerns

Essential Requirements:

• University working and thinking level, degree in business/technical/scientific area or comparable education/experience

• CISSP and Security related certification from industry standard vendors or organizations

• 8+ years of IT experience, 5+ years as Data Protection security architect, 8+ years in Data Protection domain, with 5+ years of experience of working in or providing security services to a large enterprise like Novartis

• Exceptional understanding of other security domains like Digital Workspace, Network Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft365 services, SIEM, Vulnerability Management

• Good understanding and experience with Cloud vendor architecture and services.

• Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management (with and without IT background, with and without in-depth risk management background) on information risk topics.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills.

• Exceptional understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology, systems and management processes

• Experience of sourcing complex IT services, working closely with vendors and making full use of their capabilities

• Proven experience to initiate and manage projects that will affect other divisions, departments and functions, as well as the corporate environment.

Desirable requirements

• Good understanding and experience with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF will be an added advantage.

• Professional information security certification, such as CISM or ISO 27001 auditor / practitioner is preferred. Professional (information system) risk or audit certification such as CIA, CISA or CRISC is preferred

​Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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