Senior Security Architect at Centene

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose:

Advises policy, direction, and vision for critical enterprise IT & Business domains. Drives and designs new and critical security initiatives for emerging technologies. Assesses, envisions, plans, designs, and oversees the implementation of security and compliance capabilities across company platforms, systems, and applications. Defines security requirements, secure architecture blueprints, and conducts reviews of systems, platforms, and applications to identify security risks. Recommends architectural enhancements to minimize security risk to the company.

• Provides guidance and assists in communicating the vision for information security across our organization as well as fostering a security-minded design and development culture.
• Develops reference architecture and implementation patterns related to security solutions.
• Provides guidance and architecture review of cross-program and cross-project Security Architecture strategies, opportunities, and problem resolution.
• Ensures conformance and compliance of projects and programs with architectural security guidelines.
• Drives and assists in ensuring new security initiatives are incorporated into solution designs.
• Guides, identifies, develops, implements, and maintains security processes to reduce risks, respond to incidents, and limit attack surface to the company.
• Supports the mitigation of significant security risks, design strategies and programs to prevent and minimize loss of organizational assets, all while optimizing costs.
• Advises leadership of changes in the technical, legal, and regulatory areas impacting Information Security.
• Participates in performing risk assessments and drives the resulting action items.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience:

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science).
Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

• One or more of the following skills are desired:
• Experience with Other: Technical Security Assessments on infrastructure, applications and platforms
• Experience with Other: Security tools like Vulnerability Scanners
• Experience with Other: Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
• Experience with Other: IT as it is related to Managed Healthcare

Soft Skills:

• Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Intermediate - Ability to work independently
• Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

License/Certification:

• CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional or Relevant Security Certification preferred
• CompTIA Security+ Certification preferred
• AWS/Azure Security Specialty preferred

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.