Title: Azure Security Architect
Location: Kansas, USA. Remote with periodic participation in project and governance meetings.
Contract
Responsibilities
- Review and challenge solution architectures, designs, and implementation plans.
- Assess solutions for security, resiliency, governance, and operational readiness.
- Evaluate identity, access management, networking, data protection, logging, monitoring, and third-party integrations.
- Conduct architecture and security reviews at key project milestones.
- Identify risks, control gaps, and remediation recommendations.
- Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements related to finance systems.
- Assess ERP/GL, subledger, FP&A, reporting, data platform, integration, and identity/access designs for security and control implications
- Maintain security risks, decisions, assumptions, and control gaps in alignment with program RAID, decision log, and governance processes
- Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Governance, Compliance, Project Management, and external vendors.
- Provide executive-level summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations.
Required Experience
- 10+ years of enterprise architecture and cloud experience.
- 5+ years designing and governing Microsoft Azure environments.
- Strong cybersecurity architecture background, including Zero Trust and cloud security.
- Experience with large transformation programs, ERP/GL implementations, or finance system modernization.
- Experience reviewing security architecture across SaaS, cloud, integration, data platform, and enterprise identity environments
- Ability to translate technical security risks into business-relevant recommendations for program leaders and executives
- Deep knowledge of:
- Azure Architecture & Governance
- Microsoft Entra ID
- RBAC and Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
- Azure Networking
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Data Protection and Security Monitoring
- Experience working with auditors, risk teams, and compliance frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
- CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, TOGAF, or equivalent certifications
- Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SOX controls
Deliverables
- Architecture and security review reports
- Risk and control gap assessments
- Phase-gate security readiness assessments
- Executive presentations and recommendations for program leadership
- Design review participation throughout the program
- Security control traceability and audit-readiness support for finance systems
- Ongoing advisory support for project and governance teams
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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