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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Responsibilities

Principal Security Architect – Professional Services Technical Consultant

The goal of the Principal Architect (PA) is to deliver a secure, efficient and effective IT environment through an architecture that supports the customer's business needs. The PA serves as the technical team leader through all stages of a professional services engagement and they are the main point of contact for architectural discussions related to Professional Services. The PA links the customer’s business mission, strategy, and processes to its Security, IT strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that show how the current and future needs of an organization will be met when incorporating Verizon’s services, products, and technology partners.  In addition, the PA serves as the technical liaison to Verizon Professional Services Delivery teams, and monitors the engagement to foster and create a subsequent professional services engagement. 

 RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Establish, drive and socialize the strategic technical vision for security and data architecture – leads definition and delivery of target state data architecture blue-prints, along with interim states and roadmap to manage customer growth and provide services to its employees and customers.
  • Manage enterprise-wide security and data architecture functions, working across business areas to understand the customer’s data lifecycle requirements as it relates to the client’s enterprise security and IT/Data center needs.
  • Build and develop strategic views of emerging technologies for supporting enterprise security and data needs.
  • Alignment of IT strategy and planning with the customer's business goals by framing proposed Verizon technology designs, and choreograph other related activities into the customer’s larger plan.
  • Responsible for solution scoping based on client’s business needs and technical requirements. Ability to draft detailed Scopes of Work (SOW) based on Clients needs integrated with their current environment and targeted future state.
  • Optimization of info management by understanding business needs and technology capabilities.
  • Promote shared infrastructure and applications such as cloud services to reduce costs and improve information flows.
  • Provide a solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with changing business needs.
  • Manage risks associated with information security needs and IT assets.
  • Promote security assessments and reviews with mastery knowledge of security program designs and implementation. 
  • Perform system modeling, simulation, and analysis.
  • Develop and conduct tests to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.
  • Identify, analyze, and resolve system problems.
  • Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
  • Develop best practices and guidelines for existing or new technologies that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of IT within the client’s enterprise.
  • Drive best practices broadly and deeply throughout a technical and engineering based organization while able to articulate solution and influence decision makers on technology trends.
  • Provide system/equipment specialized training and technical guidance.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

  • BS in Engineering or Computer Science related discipline or equivalent work experience.  Masters or level education desired.
  • 5+ years’ experience with enterprise data architecture, enterprise security, data modeling, mobility, and high volume transaction processing systems in a presales solutions development environment
  • Advanced experience leading presales Professional Services engagements to include:
    • Creating and documenting consulting engagements.
    • Creating business strategies
    • Designing high and low level architecture
    • Tactical experience leading IT Operations, field design and configuration, etc.
    • Developing, proposing and executing on architectures for all phases of the professional services consulting lifecycle.
    • Create Reference Architectures as part of consulting engagements.
  • Strong knowledge of the Financial Services vertical business for which the enterprise architecture is being developed; with experience working with Financial Services industry infrastructure, systems, and applications across multiple channels (LAN, WAN, Mobile, etc).  Addressing vertical specific IT challenges and ability to utilize Verizon offerings to solve those challenges.
  • Expert knowledge of security risk procedures, security patterns, authentication technologies, and security attack pathologies. 
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of Enterprise Security, Cloud, Data Center, or Mobile Technologies within the Financial Services industry:
    • Security:  Security protection policies & data compliance as it applies to the Financial Services industry
    • Cloud offerings:  (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS…)
    • Cloud ecosystems:  Public, Private & hybrid
    • Virtualization:  Hypervisors, server and desktop virtualization
    • Data Center:  Colocation, Business Continuity, Tier I-IV facilities…
  • Mobile Security: Mobile Device Management tools, PKI..Extensive experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data tools and techniques
  • Leading industry certifications in one or more of the following is highly desired…
    • Security:  CISSP, CEH, GCIH, GPEN, CCSK, Security+, Cisco, F5, BlueCoat, CheckPoint
    • Cloud/Vitualization:  EMC, VMware, Rackspace, AWS, IBM, Oracle
    • DataCenter:  Cisco (CCNP DataCenter), NetApp (NCDA), EMC (EMCDA), VM Ware (VCP5-DCV), CNET (CDCMP), Schnieder Electric…
    • Storage:  Cisco, Brocade, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, Sun/Oracle, Symantec…
  • Knowledge of IT governance and operations.  Industry certifications in the following functions are highly desired:
    • Architecture:  TOGAF
    • Service Delivery/Governance:  ITILv2/3
  • Strong leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution Strong communication skills in verbal and written to deliver customer presentations at the CxO level aimed at aligning technical solutions with business value.
  • Experience preparing customer-facing material such as RFP responses, proactive proposals and solution designs.
  • Strong presentation skills aimed at aligning technical solutions with business value – white boarding.
  • Consensus-building skills with business and technical groups.
  • Deep understanding of current technical needs for the financial services vertical, like PCI, by currently working in the financial vertical, or in-depth experience supporting customers in this vertical. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

  • Verizon is a Federal Contractor
  • Verizon requests veteran priority referrals
  • Verizon is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer M/F/Disability/Vet.