Highmark Health · 4 months ago
Data Protection and Security – Principal Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$108K/yr - $202K/yr
10+ years expHighmark Health is a leading healthcare organization, seeking a Data Protection and Security – Principal Architect to lead enterprise-wide data security and protection strategies. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to implement sound security practices, focusing on challenges presented by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, and mentoring other professionals in data security and protection best practices.
Health CareHospital
Responsibilities
Develop systems and component architectures and APIs that meet the test of time. Articulate and evangelize architectural principles reciprocally with engineering, architecture and product teams that ensure system components fit securely, are sustainable, and align with company’s business direction. Analyze and recommend novel technologies, architectural solutions (and associated business cases) to the various technology executives across the company which simultaneously optimize value, risk, spend & design footprints
Influence enterprise solutions architects and engineers to define, develop, maintain, and communicate the technology and platform strategy, guidelines, and re-usable design patterns to all levels including the Highmark Health executive team
Work with external and internal engineering teams to provide continuous architecture and design mentorship/leadership and be a source of support that ensures successful product delivery and operational excellence in production, including leadership and support for application development and change management activities
Establish relationships with key architects and executive technology leadership across the enterprise technology organization and collaborate on promoting architectural standard methodologies
Collaborate with key internal and external partners such as security, developers, development managers, product and program management and senior technical and business executives to drive the Architecture strategy, reference enterprise architecture documents, functional specifications, designs, and architectural libraries
Resolve approaches for new areas by quickly investigating and synthesizing the state of the art and available technologies including leading the development of enterprise solutions which meet current and future business requirements
Take a consultative approach to develop, present and share the value and vision of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide audience
Promote architecture standard methodologies and mentor key technical people within the Data Product organization
Champion a culture of innovation in an environment that requires high levels of scalability, security and reliability for our most critical enterprise cloud and 'on premise' applications and infrastructure
Other duties as assigned or requested
Qualification
Required
10 years of experience in Information Security
4 years of experience as Information Security Architect with deep understanding of domains of security (e.g. zero trust, data protection, identity & access mgmt., threat mgmt., etc.)
3 years of experience with data management, query processing, distributed processing, high availability, statistical and machine learning and operational excellence of production systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to technical and non-technical people at multiple organization levels
Outstanding technical acumen across a broad range of cloud and on premise technologies, architectures, applications and APIs
Demonstrated ability to initiate and guide enterprise technical programs and/or products and services business cases to successful outcomes at scale
Demonstrated ability to both navigate technical details for enterprise security programs and services, and guide staff through solution development
Outstanding judgement and ability to methodically analyze cyber risk, and intelligence and both offer risk appropriate advice and make risk appropriate decisions
Preferred
3 years of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions (evaluation, integration, etc.)
3 years of experience managing and leading teams
Significant knowledge and experience with data architecture concepts, practices, tools, and strategies
AI Security Expertise: Serve as the subject matter expert on data security and protection best practices for AI/ML systems, including but not limited to: Data privacy in AI model development and deployment, Security of AI algorithms and models against adversarial attacks, Bias detection and mitigation in AI systems, Secure data handling and storage for AI training data, Ensuring compliance with ethical AI principles
Masters Computer Science or related field of study
Security certifications (e.g. The Open Group Architecture Framework Certification (TOGAF), Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), etc.)
Company
Highmark Health
Highmark Health is an integrated health care delivery and financing network.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.75MKey Investors
Henry L. Hillman FoundationRichard King Mellon Foundation
2025-06-11Grant· $1.75M
2021-05-10Grant· $5M
Leadership Team
David Holmberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Karen Hanlon
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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