Security Technology Architect

About Lumen

Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications - quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up - committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.

Lumen's commitment to workplace inclusion and employee support shines bright. We've made the Newsweek 2024 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity list and achieved a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the fifth consecutive year. Plus, we're the top employer in the communications and telecom industry, ranking 12th overall across all industries in The American Opportunity Index.

We're looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.

The Role

The Security Solutions Architect is a senior level position in Lumen's Technology Architecture organization with responsibility for providing expert-level information security advisory and security architectural solution support for large, complex, and technologically difficult security solutions. This is a highly visible role with our Technology Architect Group requiring a security consultant mindset, ability to partner, and direct contact with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. This role's success requires having the ability to provide simplified security messaging, detailed understanding of operational delivery; superior stakeholder interaction skills; and a broad perspective on information security topics.

In this role, the Architect:

• Provides overall definition, direction, and strategic design for customer driven PSS solutions in collaboration with enterprise, state, local, and federal stakeholders.

• Provides thought leadership to develop, build, solution, and package Lumen Professional Security Services for consumption by end customer and IT security professionals. supporting material for a wide variety of stakeholders and technical backgrounds.

• Operates in multiple theaters from: security operations and delivery activities to customer engagement, sales support, and solution shaping in order to achieve Lumen and customer business goals. Leads solution development for strategic initiatives, must-win sales opportunities, and high visibility engagements.

• Assesses broad trends in the IT security space and proposes, develops, and tailor complex solutions that address evolving customer requirements or landscapes.

• Provides security domain thought leadership across various Security technologies and service offerings. Positions Lumen security with whitepapers or other security strategist level positioning documents.

• Demonstrates knowledge of end-to-end information security strategies, standards, processes, and tools necessary for security solution design.

• Demonstrates security advisory, thought leadership, and technical security competencies for customers, sales, operations teams and other security stakeholders.

• Understands and can articulate 'Big Picture' thought with the ability to clearly demonstrate how technical solutions achieve specific and measurable business goals and objectives.

• Leads, guides, shapes, delivers, effectively messages, and presents clear solution designs in partnership and support from security engineers, security solutions architects, technical writers, and other stakeholders. Creates architectural design documents, graphics, visual representations, and other

Location

The professional in this position can work from home when not in client and team meetings. Business needs require the person to reside within our Middle or Western Region of United States.

The Main Responsibilities

• Provide security subject matter expertise, while transforming unclear business requirements into a clear, detailed, and documented security service solution.

• Understand the impact of security requirements on technical solutions and architectures.

• Guide and work with all the necessary security points of contact (internally and externally) to build consensus on chosen technical approaches and paths.

• Work directly with the Lumen teams to architect/create/package large complex solutions for customers while maintaining effective messaging throughout all phases of the lifecycle.

• Create standardized architectural diagrams, artifacts, presentation decks, business justifications, deliverables, statement of work, level of effort, pricing, and security solution collateral material.

• Ability to ingest lots of information rapidly to support quick decision making, while keeping stakeholders on track and adjusting to changing business dynamics.

• Perform other tasks as assigned to enable or achieve Lumen business goals or objectives.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Ten plus years of experience as an information security professional,

• Deep experience leading security solutioning exercises and teasing out security requirements for traceability purposes.

• Solid understanding of security tasks and functions related to networking, Cloud, DevOps, and security platforms in highly complex corporate IT infrastructure environments.

• Working knowledge is expected in multiple security disciplines including:

• MEDR

• Managed SIEM

• SOC Services

• SASE

• Incident Response

• Vulnerability Management

• Security Strategy and Architecture consulting

• Security Awareness and Training

• Data Protection

• Able to successfully interact with audiences that may include senior executives, IT security leadership, and technical staff. Work well with others and able to work in a self-directed manner.

• Experience leading, writing, managing, and positioning security services for end customers.

• Process-oriented with a focus on attention to detail.

• Strong ability to build consensus and bring together disparate stakeholders.

• Passionate about Information Security and demonstrated success with complex solutions.

• Highly poised with ability to work well in a team setting.

• Willingness to learn and become proficient in new technologies, products, processes, and services.

• Maintain a technical skill set that that matches the evolving security of Lumen customers and corresponding security services.

• Excellent written, verbal, and executive level presentation skills.

• Commitment to excellence and willingness to do what is necessary to get the job done.

• Ability to travel in support of meetings, presentations, conferences, and similar events.

• Highly passionate about information security and how it enables businesses succeed.

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