IT Security Architect - Employment,career opportunity in USA

Job Title:  IT Security Architect
Location: - (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, Mid-West United States, USA)
Company: CHS Inc.
Deadline: 21st Jan 2014
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: 7



Responsibilities:
CHS has an excellent opportunity to join our Information Technology group.  We are seeking a Security Architect to provide strategic guidance and governance relating to the security of CHS infrastructure and application technology environments globally.
The Security Architect will work with stakeholders (both leadership and subject matter experts) to build a holistic and strategic view of the organization's information technology assets, applications, data/information assets, related processes, and information security requirements.
This position will link the strategy and processes of the organization to the security strategy, initiatives, and technology selections. This is an expert/lead technical role, and will define the information security architecture and design for the enterprise.
You must possess exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills (collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation), strong conceptual thinking, and communication skills (written and verbal).  Must have strong business acumen, with experience in understanding and shaping technology investments in support of company strategy.
 
You will:    Provide security expertise and thought leadership throughout the organization with an emphasis on enterprise security.
    Develop strategic and detailed technical roadmaps of the enterprise security environments and the associated technologies required to deliver these solutions on a global basis.
    Serve as the lead architect and engineer providing conceptual and detailed global solution designs that are scalable, flexible and secure.
    Assist with identifying, developing and leading innovation initiatives. This will include researching new technologies and/or new applications of existing technologies that will deliver new capabilities to the business.
    Provide strategic guidance and governance relating to technology solutions that will enable the business to meet their safety, financial and strategic goals.
    Develop consistent, repeatable technology patterns that will be used by the engineering and operational groups to design and deploy supportable solutions that will minimize the total cost of ownership.
    Develop and Maintain the Architecture Technology reference model and associated architecture patterns that define the infrastructure and application technology standards.
    Identify and evaluate business trends in the Agriculture and Energy industry including adequate consideration of the technology impacts and inclusion in strategy/planning activities.
    Creation of long-term prioritization plans for shared architecture development across the organization that supports integrated products, without sacrificing short-term goals and needs.
    Work closely with enterprise architects and other functional area architects, to ensure adequate security solutions are in place throughout all IT systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements.
    Develop the business, information and technical artifacts that constitute the enterprise information security architecture and solutions.
    Contribute to the alignment of security governance with EA governance and project and portfolio management (PPM).
    Analyze business impact and exposure, based on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and risks.
    Communicate security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff.

Basic Qalifications:
    Bachelor degree in computer science, information systems or other related field
    7 plus years of combined IT and security work experience, with a minimum of 5 years as an Architect.  Broad exposure to infrastructure/network and ERP environments.
    Previous leadership experience, with the ability to effectively coach and mentor others
    Expert knowledge of security issues, techniques and implications across all existing computer platforms
    Knowledge of a security-specific architecture methodology
    Proven ability in security process and organizational design

Preferred Qualifications:
    Master degree in computer science, information systems or other related field
    Professional security management certification, such as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with Information Systems Security Architecture Professional concentration (CISSP-ISSAP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or other similar credentials
    Proven ability to drive best practices broadly and deeply throughout a technical and engineering based organization, while able to articulate and convincingly influence decision-makers on technology trends
    Practical experience designing and building enterprise and/or distributed systems with an emphasis on security

To learn more about CHS, refer to this link http://www.youtube.com/user/chsincorporated#p/u


CHS offers a competitive total compensation package. 

Benefits include: Health, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation , 401K, Company Funded Pension, Profit Sharing,  Long and Short Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.
This position will have opportunity for growth.

CHS is a diversified Fortune 100 company providing essential grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers.  CHS is a cooperative system owned by farmers, ranchers and their local cooperatives from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest and from the Canadian border to Texas. CHS is an EEO/AA/M/F/V/D employer.


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