Principal Cybersecurity Architect – Cloud & Infrastructure Security

Job Description Summary We are seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Architect – Cloud & Infrastructure Security to serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping secure architecture across cloud and on-premise environments. This role operates at the center of the Business Application Solutions Engagement (BASE) architecture review process, providing security leadership, architectural oversight, and risk governance for enterprise solutions. The architect will partner closely with solution architecture, cloud engineering, and business technology teams to ensure security is embedded by design into all target architectures. As a principal architect, you will define strategy, establish enterprise security patterns, and influence technology decisions at scale—ensuring alignment to security principles, regulatory requirements, and enterprise standards. Job Description Key Responsibilities Architecture Governance & BASE Engagement Serve as the lead cloud and infrastructure cybersecurity architect supporting the BASE architecture review process, ensuring security requirements are incorporated early in solution design Review and assess technical system architectures for security risks, control gaps, and compliance alignment Provide approval, conditional approval, or remediation guidance for architecture designs Ensure solutions align with enterprise security standards, policies, and target architecture principles and patterns Drive consistency in how security controls are applied across all architecture reviews Publish Risk Assessment Reports that include threats and mitigating controls aligned to GEV policies and standards Cloud & Infrastructure Security Architecture Apply Zero Trust principles across identity, network, application, and data layers Define and publish reusable solution and security patterns Ensure proper implementation of security controls (prevent, detect, respond) across infrastructure and platforms Partner with cloud engineering to translate secur