Cybersecurity Technology Architect, Expert

Requisition ID # 164370 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

 

 

Department Overview

The Cybersecurity organization works to protect our critical assets, highest risks, adapting and growing to meet the challenges from ever-evolving adversaries. The Security Engineers work closely with Project Managers, Risk Management and Cybersecurity Operations team to provide architecture design and implementation services. They intake functional & nonfunctional requirements; evaluate various solution or design options, document solution blueprint, and implementation steps. They ensure that the solution implemented meets our security standards and regulatory requirements. The Cybersecurity team consists of security professionals in their chosen disciplines, including:

 

• Cybersecurity Services
• Risk Management
• Security Intelligence & Operations

 

Working together, we review the current cyber threat landscape and lend our expertise to help the company understand its security posture and act on the highest priority risks. The Cybersecurity team takes a proactive approach to security by focusing on the cyber risks PG&E faces. Our methodology and framework synthesize current legal, regulatory, and operating mandates with PG&E’s business goals and operations. 

 

Position Summary

The Expert Cyber Security Architect, Leads all technical aspects within the Data Security Technology Domain projects. The Expert Architect uses expertise in multiple technical areas to document security domain strategies, and technology solutions to meet the business needs of PG&E. The technical documents ensure requirements are met in an efficient, sustainable, and adaptable manner.

 

This position will operate across organizational and computing areas driving efficient, standards-based architecture supporting PG&E business goals. The successful candidate will deliver a domain strategy that can be leveraged over a span of 5+ years, solution blueprints that include the conceptual, logical, and physical layers of the process, application, information, integration, security, and infrastructure views of the architecture. Partnering with Cybersecurity Project and Program Managers. The position in the primary technical decision maker on strategies and projects as they relate to Data Security. Explore and integrate emerging cybersecurity technologies to enhance PG&E’s Data Security Framework and proactively identify risks and develop mitigation strategies to protect PG&E’s critical assets.

 

This position will have accountability and responsibility for solutions that are of complex scope and with significant risk and high impact across multiple functions. They work autonomously, addressing complex problems that span functions and may manage projects or initiatives that are high complexity and risk. Architects provide guidance, coaching and mentoring to non-architect technical staff of lesser experience, utilizing NIST, CIS Controls to develop and implement robust Data Security Roadmaps and Strategies that align with PG&E’S business goals.

 

The position will be a Hybrid work environment, requiring the Architect to be within the PG&E service territory, the work location is flexible and there will be occasional (approximately once per week, or more depending on business need) travel to/from Sacramento, San Ramon, or Oakland offices.

 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

 

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

 

A reasonable salary range is:

 

Bay Area Minimum: $132,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $226,000.00

 

OR

 

California Minimum: $125,000.00
California Maximum: $215,000.00

 

Job Responsibilities

• Works in partnership with a Cybersecurity project manager to orchestrate the architecture design and is accountable for the overall technical quality of solutions. Follows the Cybersecurity & IT Methodology, producing, contributing to, and providing signoffs on deliverables as defined.
• Works with Cybersecurity Architects to contribute to planning and road mapping activities.
• Participates in the governance processes as defined by the PG&E Cybersecurity architecture practice
• Partners with the Cybersecurity Architects in the health evaluation of the technology within the architect’s focus area and assists in the development of improvement plans for their area of focus
• Follows the PG&E Cybersecurity Architecture Practice.
• Leads communities within the practice.
• Mentors other architects.
• Able to engage and influence partners to develop the best solutions
• Own the outcome; Able to manage expectations; strive for overall IT success; take the initiative; administrative excellence
• Great insights and judgment skills; courage to share unpopular viewpoints; comfort with ambiguity
• Ability to apply multi-disciplinary approach to develop best-of-breed portfolio solutions
• Ensures adherence to industry standards and frameworks such as NIST CSF 2.0,CIS Controls-DSS etc

 

 

Qualifications

Minimum:

 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 6 years in IT-Information Technology security, multi-platform, or related experience

 

Desired:

 

• 8 years of combined IT, intelligence and/or cyber/information
• Masters Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in critical infrastructure industry
• CISSP-Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification, or equivalent
• CISA-Certified Information Systems Auditor certification
• CISM-Certified Information Security Manager certification
• CRISC-Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control certification
• Customer Service Representative Contact Center PGE Program completed

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