Application & Platform Security Architect

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $141.5k - $268.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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AbbVie

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2013

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance

AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers and delivers innovative medicines and solutions to enhance lives. With a focus on addressing the world's toughest health challenges, AbbVie operates in over 175 countries, providing a wide range of products across areas like immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Committed to scientific innovation, AbbVie invests heavily in research and development, aiming to produce first-in-class medicines. The company also emphasizes workplace diversity, sustainability, and patient support initiatives, ensuring positive impact for both its patients and the broader community.

📋 Description

• Define reusable security architecture patterns and guardrails to enable consistent, secure implementation across high-risk business applications. • Drive secure-by-design initiatives by integrating security considerations early in the software architecture lifecycle and influencing enterprise architecture direction. • Represent security architecture in design authority boards and technical review councils, advocating for risk-based security controls. • Work with in-business IT customers, including application architects and engineers to evaluate application software and infrastructure designs, for the purpose of defining/designing application controls aligned with enterprise standards. • Define application-specific security control architectures and produce design artifacts to guide secure implementation of business-critical systems. • Develop re-usable implementation guidance and design patterns based on previous engagements to scale the service. • Work with information security leadership to develop strategies and plans to enforce security requirements and address identified risks in the infrastructure and applications. • Act as a security architecture liaison to IT delivery and engineering teams, embedding security principles into technical delivery and architecture review forums. • Support security aspects of business & IT initiatives by assisting in architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and operational transition of innovative & secure technology solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of experience OR Master’s Degree and 8 years of experience OR PhD and 4 years of experience in information security and/or related functions (IT Audit, Risk Management or Security Architecture). • Must have demonstrated exceptional ability to assess and communicate information security concepts and practices, with both business and IT stakeholders. • Requires in-depth knowledge of the systems development life cycle, client area’s functions and systems, and systems applications programs development technological alternatives. • Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advance the business. • Strong understanding of application security principles, including OWASP Top 10, SANS/CWE Top 25, and secure coding practices. • Expertise in secure session management, token handling, and authentication mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect). • Knowledge of cryptographic practices, encryption protocols, and PKI management. • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). • Familiarity with tools for code analysis (e.g., SonarQube, Veracode) and vulnerability scanning (e.g., Burp Suite, Nessus). • Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including securing CI/CD pipelines.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) • medical/dental/vision insurance • 401(k) to eligible employees • long-term incentive programs