Hiring a freelance Security Solution Architect for a 12 month remote contract

12 month contract

Poland or Belgium based

Remote

day rate DOE

Profile

• You have worked for more than 10 years in the IT industry and have proven experience working with senior management.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry and understanding of the complex regulatory environment is a plus.
• You have worked as an architect on Cyber Security projects, experience in large and complex IAM programs is expected.
• You have worked as end-to-end solution architect on large-scale transformation projects designing, developing, and deploying mission-critical transactional systems in large & complex organizations.
• You cope with systems & problems of various levels of complexity, which can typically span across functions, locations & organizations.
• You can tackle autonomously all types of architectural analysis and can provide global & pragmatic recommendations adapted to the company context.
• You can work high-level such as creating Strategic position papers and Reference Architectures, as well as the ability to zoom on the technical challenges of implementation.
• Provides advice and expertise to Enterprise and Domain Architects during architecture studies and domain architecture works.
• You are a problem-solver with strong analytical skills (eg breaking up & structuring complex problems into manageable pieces), which you apply to problems spanning across multiple architectural domains.
• You can effectively communicate and advocate for the architecture recommendations vis-à-vis project/agile delivery teams and senior business and IT management of the company.
• You can sell the architecture.
• You can use your experience & knowledge to build strong relationships with other architects and the other parts of the organization.
• You will also be able to coach & mentor new members of the team in how to apply solutions architecture and to understand the domains and their interactions & complexities.
• Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures (eg CSD), knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF, SAFE), Cyber Security Architecture and RISK frameworks (SABSA, ISO 27k, NIST,..) and relevant experience with Agile operating models and frameworks are extra assets.

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