Infrastructure Security Architect

Role Summary: 

The Infrastructure Security Architect is a leader within Information Security and across NXP. The Architect leads and develops a strong baseline of security reference architectures, and solutions based on their area of expertise. The architect will also develop and mentor engineering talent across IT via training, mentoring, and quality assurance.

The Infrastructure Security Architect is responsible for the design and planning of security solutions for highly complex problems/issues which support critical goals for NXP. The successful candidate will provide consultative information security services to departmental and organizational leadership and will guide other employees within the department. Responsibilities will include justifying system design and concepts to end users and other organizational leaders and mid to large scale project management.

The Infrastructure Security Architect maintains highly collaborative, trusted-advisor relationships with senior leaders across NXP both within IT and in the general lines of business. Aligned with these stakeholder colleagues, the candidate will develop solutions/programs/project plans, proactively manage risks and issues, leads successful delivery and improves infrastructure and platforms.

Your opportunity:

NXP is a global player in Semiconductor industry, and security is an essential and integral part of our business.

Job Responsibility:  

Strategic Alignment and Vision

• Define and oversee the Security Infrastructure technical direction and architectural vision, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital transformation efforts
• Translate the vision of business leaders into realistic technical information security implementations, while identifying misaligned initiatives and impractical use cases

Architectural Design and Technology Selection

• Key contributor in architecting a comprehensive security TOGAF framework that supports the deployment, evaluation, and management of infrastructure elements across the NXP enterprise
• Select appropriate security technologies from a pool of existing and potential offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing solutions
• Develop and design security architecture frameworks for complex integrated infrastructure. Applies concepts to current system structure and technology constraints to maximize organizational benefit.
• Lead technical discussions and solutions for Information Security Infrastructure, to include: determining Infrastructure requirements & system integration points/interfaces, processing re-engineering issues, and evaluating application design and implementation strategies.
• Manage initiatives & projects of significant complexity and risk. Provide leadership to assigned client areas or teams.
• Maintain prioritized security roadmap, develop work estimates, and ensure successful delivery to support strategic planning and initiatives, improve organizational performance, and advance progress towards NXP goals.
• Lead improvement teams and projects within Information Security Infrastructure; lead the development and delivery of training relevant to area of expertise.
• Perform continual assessments and research of new security technology innovations

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with Enterprise, Application, Security, Data & DevOps Architects, Network Engineers, Server Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Storage Engineers. and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss architectural design
• Gather inputs from multiple stakeholders to align technical implementation with existing and future requirements
• Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers, legal, and other business units

Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement

• Be responsible for the successful architecture & design of Secure Infrastructure solutions
• Audit implementations and practices across server, storage, network, and cloud focusing on continuous improvement and feedback mechanisms

Product Strategy and Business Understanding

• Help IT product managers and business stakeholders understand the potential and limitations of security standards when planning new deployments
• Break down client problems and bring an understanding of leading technology, analytics methods, tools, and operating model approaches

Research and Development

• Conduct research to provide technical solutions to scale secure IT infrastructures for real-world challenges, making trade-offs based on quality, scalability, performance, and cost

Tool Development and Data Management

• Build tools and capabilities that assist with data ingestion, feature engineering, data management, and organization

 Job Qualification: 

Desired Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in any of Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field
• Advanced degrees such as Masters is preferred

Professional Experience:

• 8+ years of experience leading a cross-functional team (both onshore and offshore).
• 8+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements, performing designed and validated application architecture frameworks, and executing functional and testing assignments
• 8+ years of experience translating security requirements into client ready design documents
• 8+ years of experience with application architecture security analysis, design, and delivery

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Certifications (Preferred):

• Certifications in security, networking, systems, and storage technologies, such as Cisco CCIE, TOGAF, Zachman, NetApp NCIE, VMWare VCP, Palo Alto PCNSE, SSEE, AWS Certified Architect
• Certifications in PMP, ITIL or other project/domain specific
• Security certifications such as: CISSP, CISA, CISM, OWASP, and others

NXP Introduction:   

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. 

For more information, please visit our website https://www.nxp.com 

Career Development Opportunities 

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We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we offer online and offline learning opportunities to help you develop some of your core and professional skills. 

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Commitment At NXP.  

We recognize we can be a powerful change agent as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that advance a more sustainable future. We remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability and making measurable year-on-year progress. Also, we aim to create an inclusive work environment and we will not tolerate racism, discrimination or harassment of any kind. We have programs in place focused on diversity, inclusion and equality. 

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