About this role
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is hiring an Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect based in Dallas, TX (on-site, full-time). This role acts as a strategic cybersecurity leader guiding the organization's security architecture, cyber risk reduction, and secure technology transformation initiatives. It operates as a senior individual contributor and enterprise technical authority (not a people-management role), translating threat intelligence, regulatory expectations, business priorities and enterprise technology strategy into security roadmaps, reference architectures, standards and design patterns.
Primary responsibilities include leading the enterprise cybersecurity architecture vision and roadmap across identity, infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, network, endpoint, third-party and OT domains; serving as senior security design authority for the most complex, cross-portfolio solutions; establishing security design patterns and reference architectures; defining security guidance for emerging technologies including AI/GenAI; assessing external cyber threat trends and authoring executive position papers on strategic risks and investments; ensuring vendor and platform selections align with enterprise security strategy; driving security-by-design, zero trust, least privilege, defense-in-depth and data protection principles; partnering with security operations, risk, infrastructure, engineering, data, privacy and compliance teams; prioritizing remediation of architectural security debt; and mentoring architects and engineers.
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field (or equivalent experience). Typically 15+ years of IT/cybersecurity experience, including 10+ years of architecture experience across security, infrastructure, cloud, application, data and identity domains, with 5+ years leading enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture strategy or large-scale secure transformation initiatives. Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite and senior stakeholders and a track record of measurable risk reduction. Preferred: expert knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SABSA, zero trust and secure SDLC; AWS/cloud security architecture; relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF or AWS/Azure security certifications; and experience in DevSecOps, threat modeling and AI/GenAI security.