Educational Testing Service
Manager, Security Architect
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, us, 08543
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Manager, Security Architect is responsible for articulating the security architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, developing and validating the architecture and high-level solution design against business requirements, and guiding and mentoring development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices. In addition, this role incorporates security into every aspect of the architecture to reduce the impact of an attack and build resiliency into the solution. Finally, this role helps define security and protection guidelines for building, maintaining, and refining DevOps continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure upon which the teams build and release software products.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Solution Architecture and Vision:
Articulate and document a security architecture vision that integrates security into the fabric of design and development processes.
Establish and maintain a comprehensive security architecture that supports both current lift-and-shift environments and cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and GCP.
Strategic Alignment and Planning:
Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, ensuring alignment with both current needs and future business opportunities.
Assist in aligning business strategy with IT strategy, ensuring adherence to established IT principles and maximization of security posture.
Reusability and Flexibility:
Create reusable solution architectures that support future business needs, actively seeking opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new services and offerings.
Ensure IT solutions align with business functions to improve flexibility, scalability, and visibility of the organization’s value.
Security Transformation and Zero Trust:
Drive continuous technology transformation towards a Zero Trust security / Secure by Design models
Identify and mitigate potential attack vectors throughout the product lifecycle by architecting security mechanisms, establishing internal policies, and implementing monitoring processes.
Collaboration and Partnership:
Partner with business, research teams, and other relevant stakeholders in designing IT solutions that meet business requirements.
Facilitate cross-team and cross-component collaboration to ensure cohesive security practices and integration.
Continuous Improvement and Best Practices:
Continuously improve processes, technologies, and applications to provide the best value to the business.
Establish and promote best practice design patterns and identify pitfalls to avoid in ensuring IT solutions meet performance and security expectations.
Development and Application Design Support:
Assist development teams in creating and enhancing detailed application designs and interfaces with a focus on security.
Assess and recommend architectural and technological directions for IT solutions, ensuring they align with overall security strategy.
Initiative Identification and Execution:
Aggressively identify and prioritize enterprise IT application solutions and technology initiatives that add value.
Collaborate with other architects and teams to execute these initiatives effectively.
Review and Approval:
Review and approve project deliverables to ensure they are architecturally sound and align with desired security architectures.
Facilitate the leverage and reuse of components, solutions, and technologies across teams and projects.
Business Strategy Influence and Knowledge Maintenance:
Influence business strategy by explaining architectural capabilities to management and business stakeholders.
Maintain a broad understanding of the business, including customer and market trends, to contribute to future vision and strategy.
Conduct research and proof of concepts to stay informed of new technical tools and trends, envisioning their application in improving business processes.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
Strong leadership and organizational skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Analytical mindset with the capability to make data-driven decisions.
Proactive approach, with the ability to foresee potential challenges and address them head-on.
Ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
Zero Trust and Secure by Design and Default concepts
Security Architecture and Design
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field or Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MSc) is a plus.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in Information Security, with a preferred focus on Security Architecture.
Proven experience in Cloud first organization AWS is preferred, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce is a plus
Certifications such as CISSP, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Security Architect and Engineer are preferred.
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#LI-REMOTE
ETS believes in a Total Rewards philosophy for our employees, and they include:
Health, Vision, Dental insurance plans to choose from
Generous continuous learning support, from individual learning grants to up to 6 classes a year for tuition reimbursement as well as on-line learning access!
Generous PTO and vacation time to balance your work and life
Additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work
Retirement plan (401(a)) and traditional Roth (403b) with company contribution
Commuter Benefits, Pet Insurance, 1 year subscription to Calm App
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is at the forefront of the ETS employee's daily work. To further foster an inclusive environment ETS is home to a wide variety of Affinity groups that celebrate the diversity of our talented employees.
How about cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders? ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you!
Are you passionate about volunteering and being active in your career and community? ETS offers our Center for Advocacy & Philanthropy (CAAP) where we encourage ETS employees to become active volunteers in their communities and schools through the ETS Cares Giving Campaign. Our employees can support any 501c3 or eligible charity of their choice.
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and equity in education. We are dedicated to building teams that reflect the various backgrounds, experiences, and identities of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair and equitable hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Manager, Security Architect is responsible for articulating the security architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, developing and validating the architecture and high-level solution design against business requirements, and guiding and mentoring development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices. In addition, this role incorporates security into every aspect of the architecture to reduce the impact of an attack and build resiliency into the solution. Finally, this role helps define security and protection guidelines for building, maintaining, and refining DevOps continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure upon which the teams build and release software products.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Solution Architecture and Vision:
Articulate and document a security architecture vision that integrates security into the fabric of design and development processes.
Establish and maintain a comprehensive security architecture that supports both current lift-and-shift environments and cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and GCP.
Strategic Alignment and Planning:
Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, ensuring alignment with both current needs and future business opportunities.
Assist in aligning business strategy with IT strategy, ensuring adherence to established IT principles and maximization of security posture.
Reusability and Flexibility:
Create reusable solution architectures that support future business needs, actively seeking opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new services and offerings.
Ensure IT solutions align with business functions to improve flexibility, scalability, and visibility of the organization’s value.
Security Transformation and Zero Trust:
Drive continuous technology transformation towards a Zero Trust security / Secure by Design models
Identify and mitigate potential attack vectors throughout the product lifecycle by architecting security mechanisms, establishing internal policies, and implementing monitoring processes.
Collaboration and Partnership:
Partner with business, research teams, and other relevant stakeholders in designing IT solutions that meet business requirements.
Facilitate cross-team and cross-component collaboration to ensure cohesive security practices and integration.
Continuous Improvement and Best Practices:
Continuously improve processes, technologies, and applications to provide the best value to the business.
Establish and promote best practice design patterns and identify pitfalls to avoid in ensuring IT solutions meet performance and security expectations.
Development and Application Design Support:
Assist development teams in creating and enhancing detailed application designs and interfaces with a focus on security.
Assess and recommend architectural and technological directions for IT solutions, ensuring they align with overall security strategy.
Initiative Identification and Execution:
Aggressively identify and prioritize enterprise IT application solutions and technology initiatives that add value.
Collaborate with other architects and teams to execute these initiatives effectively.
Review and Approval:
Review and approve project deliverables to ensure they are architecturally sound and align with desired security architectures.
Facilitate the leverage and reuse of components, solutions, and technologies across teams and projects.
Business Strategy Influence and Knowledge Maintenance:
Influence business strategy by explaining architectural capabilities to management and business stakeholders.
Maintain a broad understanding of the business, including customer and market trends, to contribute to future vision and strategy.
Conduct research and proof of concepts to stay informed of new technical tools and trends, envisioning their application in improving business processes.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
Strong leadership and organizational skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Analytical mindset with the capability to make data-driven decisions.
Proactive approach, with the ability to foresee potential challenges and address them head-on.
Ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
Zero Trust and Secure by Design and Default concepts
Security Architecture and Design
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field or Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MSc) is a plus.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in Information Security, with a preferred focus on Security Architecture.
Proven experience in Cloud first organization AWS is preferred, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce is a plus
Certifications such as CISSP, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Security Architect and Engineer are preferred.
#LI-NA1
#LI-REMOTE
ETS believes in a Total Rewards philosophy for our employees, and they include:
Health, Vision, Dental insurance plans to choose from
Generous continuous learning support, from individual learning grants to up to 6 classes a year for tuition reimbursement as well as on-line learning access!
Generous PTO and vacation time to balance your work and life
Additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work
Retirement plan (401(a)) and traditional Roth (403b) with company contribution
Commuter Benefits, Pet Insurance, 1 year subscription to Calm App
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is at the forefront of the ETS employee's daily work. To further foster an inclusive environment ETS is home to a wide variety of Affinity groups that celebrate the diversity of our talented employees.
How about cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders? ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you!
Are you passionate about volunteering and being active in your career and community? ETS offers our Center for Advocacy & Philanthropy (CAAP) where we encourage ETS employees to become active volunteers in their communities and schools through the ETS Cares Giving Campaign. Our employees can support any 501c3 or eligible charity of their choice.
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and equity in education. We are dedicated to building teams that reflect the various backgrounds, experiences, and identities of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair and equitable hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.