Cyber Security Architect
Are you ready to join a growing team that puts a premium on productivity and has an award-winning culture centered around transforming talented employees into effective business leaders? Then BHG Financial is the place for you. We offer innovative financial solutions to licensed and highly-skilled professionals, representing the best of both traditional lending and fintech, and are looking for passionate, impact players to help take our company to the next level. At BHG, you’ll become immersed in the finance industry—with various loan solutions, credit cards, point of sale financing, bank programs, and collections services, which have helped BHG become one of the leading financial solutions providers. With over 20 years in business, we have the stability of an established company with the speed and agility of a startup, where ingenuity and risk-taking are encouraged, and every employee has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive. Who You AreBHG Financial is looking for an experienced Cyber Security Architect with the proven ability to develop and implement robust security strategies. You will experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a high‐energy environment to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of BHG’s systems and data.
What You'll Do
- Evaluate the security architecture, design, and configuration of the organization’s existing systems, applications, and networks to determine adequacy and propose specific improvements.
- Define and maintain security requirements for new projects and initiatives to ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
- Review project proposals and participate in cross-functional team discussions about technology initiatives to provide guidance and ensure that BHG’s policies and security requirements are being met.
- Design and oversee the implementation of security solutions, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, WAF, DLP, CASB, encryption, automation, network sensors, and other detective or protective measures in a hybrid infrastructure.
- Evaluate and recommend security technologies, tools, services, and configurations to enhance BHG’s security posture.
- Work with compliance and technical teams to remediate deficiencies such as those found during assessments, audits, or examinations.
- Prepare and maintain documentation for all projects and procedures and the organization’s security architecture.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, information security, or a related discipline; or equivalent qualifications or work experience; plus two (2) years of experience as a cyber security architect or similar role within a complex IT environment.
- One (1) or more cyber security certifications including, but not limited to, CASP+, CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GSEC, or GDSA.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, operating systems, databases, and cloud technologies.
- Proficiency in security assessment tools and techniques.
- Ability to take a complex problem to identify potential security risks.
- Experience with security standards and frameworks such as FFIEC, NIST, PCI-DSS, or CIS controls.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to data privacy and protection, e.g. CCPA, GDPR.
- Understanding of and practical experience with the design, implementation, and integration of security technologies such as endpoint security, vulnerability management, network segmentation, security
- automation, SIEM, MFA, IAM, PAM, MDM, PKI, CSPM, SSPM, API management, NAC, authentication and authorization, encryption, DLP, and firewalls.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Excellent writing, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently without supervision.