Job description
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The Enterprise Security Architect serves as US Foods’ principal security architect and is expected to provide strategic/transformational guidance, tactical advice, and technical expertise in the areas of information and cybersecurity architecture, infrastructure security architecture, and application & data security architecture. This job is critical for US Foods' Information Technology team to ensure a secure-by-design posture while allowing delivery to be agile, resilient, and scalable, enabling US Foods execution of business and technology strategies. The Enterprise Security Architect will provide security oversight on all transformative technology projects to advise and guide technology products to follow established security standards.
The Enterprise Security Architect will seek to maintain a secure enterprise by understanding US Foods’ security posture/capabilities, risk tolerance, and business drivers and combining this understanding with accepted best cybersecurity practice and standards to deliver secure solutions. This role will identify opportunities to establish new standards and reference architectures that can be re-used on future initiatives. The Enterprise Security Architect will represent the Information and Cyber Security team on US Foods’ Architecture Review Board with an authoritative voice to ensure new technologies and application enhancements adhere to security standards and stay within US Foods’ risk thresholds. A successful candidate will be able to persuade and influence senior technologies leaders on the security direction of all enterprise-wide/transformational initiatives.
Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Enterprise Security Architect position is completed remotely anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Create, maintain, and enforce security guidelines, architectural patterns/artifacts, and technical standards that can be leveraged and re-used enterprise-wide across US Foods applications, infrastructure, and other systems.
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Establish credibility among technology experts as the subject matter expert across all disciplines of security at US Foods.
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Contribute to strategic security planning, including roadmaps and play a key role in the security technology and vendor selection processes.
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Serve as solution architect for large scale security technology projects.
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Create, maintain, and enforce security guidelines, architectural patterns/artifacts, and technical standards that can be leveraged and re-used enterprise-wide across US Foods applications, infrastructure, and other systems.
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Continuously pursue expert-level technical acumen; stay educated on emerging technologies and security trends.
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Drive all US Foods architects’ thinking toward modern security architecture approaches across the US Foods technology stack.
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Establish and maintain trusted relationships with business partners and project teams through active engagement, clear communication, and transparent accountability.
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Serve as a trusted advisor and approver for system and application design and architecture, ensuring adherence to security controls and guidelines.
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Educate other enterprises, solution, and technical architects on robust security architectures and evangelize security best practices across all projects and technology implementations.
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Continuously pursue expert-level technical acumen; stay educated on emerging technologies and security trends.
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Drive all US Foods architects’ thinking toward modern security architecture approaches across the US Foods technology stack.
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Serve as solution architect for large scale security technology projects.
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Contribute to strategic security planning, including roadmaps and play a key role in the security technology and vendor selection processes.
RELATIONSHIPS
Internal: Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Security Engineering, Threat & Vulnerability Management, and Leaders across the Information Technology Team.
External: Technology vendors, including software and service providers; relevant managed security services, and professional services vendors,
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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A deep and broad cybersecurity background of at least 12 years of experience in information technology with 7 to 10 years of experience in security and/or architecture roles.
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Demonstrated experience leading security design and implementation of technologies in on-prem, public cloud, Software-as-a-Service, and Platform-as-a-service solutions
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Proven subject matter expertise in security architecture in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment Critical analysis skills to identify security gaps and oversights that are not obvious or highlighted in a solution
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A collaborative approach with proven expertise and ability to influence technical SMEs, developers, product owners, and other architects on security issues
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A broad knowledge base that spans the full IT stack including software development, hardware, systems administration, networking, server infrastructure, DevOps, cloud environments, data services, and operations
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Experience in multiple security areas, including network security, intrusion prevention, endpoint security application security, identity and access management, SSO/MFA, DevSecOps, encryption & key management, security monitoring, and secure system integration/APIs
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Understand and articulate the trade-offs between security, functionality, and user experience, and is able to articulate business risk in the security decision-making within a project.
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Strong attention to detail and critical thinking skills with ability to catch corner cases and details that may be missed in architecture designs
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Ability to build risk models and analyze security weaknesses in complex technology deployments Ability to balance long-term/strategic vision with short-term perspective of situations
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Strong communication skills – written and verbal – with ability to explain complex concepts, influence, and persuade peers and executive leadership from technical experts to IT and business leaders
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Required occasional business travel (approximately 5% of travel)
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent professional experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Experience
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Experience working in an enterprise agile development organization
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Experience in the food, distribution, or supply chain industries
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Security Audit assessment and framework experience (e.g., NIST, CSF, ISO 27001)
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Experience in Identity and Access Management program, including multi-factor authentication, Single Sign On, and/or identity federation in both cloud and on-prem
The following information is provided in accordance with certain state and local laws. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $114,100 and $190,200. In New York City, the expected compensation for this role is between $135,700 and $226,200. This role is also eligible for an annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here:
https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html
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