Principal Security Architect

Principal Security Architect

Louisville, KY

Summary:

A principal-level enterprise security architect with executive influence, broad security domain expertise, and secure-by-design leadership experience. Seeking a professional to establish and evolve the cybersecurity architecture control plane across the enterprise. This role is responsible for aiding in defining enterprise security strategy, reference architectures, and design authority, enabling secure, scalable technology adoption and consistent integration of security controls across business, IT, cloud, and third-party environments. The ideal candidate will operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, bringing deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence decisions that shape the organizations security posture and technology direction.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and evolving the enterprise security architecture strategy and roadmap, aligned to business and technology priorities.
• Establishing and enforcing security design authority across enterprise initiatives and technology decisions.
• Developing and maintaining reference architectures, design patterns, and security standards.
• Integrating risk, threat intelligence, and business context into architectural decisions.
• Identifying systemic risks and architectural gaps across environments and platforms.
• Ensuring security architecture aligns to data protection, critical assets, and exposure risk.
• Partnering with Engineering, Technology, and Business teams to ensure secure design and control integration across systems while meeting business needs.
• Defining requirements for identity, access, logging, monitoring, and resilience within system architectures.
• Driving adoption of modern security principles, including Zero Trust and secure-by-design practices.
• Providing strategic guidance on security architecture considerations for new technologies, platforms, and business initiatives.
• Advising senior leadership on areas for security investment, optimization, and potential divestment, based on risk, effectiveness, and scalability.
• Influencing enterprise technology decisions to ensure alignment with long-term security strategy.
• Ensuring security architecture evolves based on emerging threats, incidents, and technology trends.
• Supporting security testing and validation by defining architectural requirements for assurance and resilience.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in enterprise security architecture or related cybersecurity roles.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a Principal or equivalent level, influencing senior leadership and enterprise strategy.
• Deep understanding of security architecture domains (identity, network, cloud, application, data protection, and detection).
• Proven ability to develop and drive adoption of enterprise-wide security strategies and architectures.
• Experience translating complex technical and threat concepts into business-relevant decisions.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in emerging technologies, security patterns, and industry trends.
• Strong ability to influence without authority across engineering, IT, and business leadership.
• Experience advising on technology investments and tradeoffs, including where to invest, optimize, or reduce.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with SVP/VP-level stakeholders.

Required Skills:

Extensive experience in enterprise security architecture, influencing senior leadership, and developing security strategies.

Preferred Skills:

Thought leadership in emerging technologies and strong communication skills for engaging with senior stakeholders.

Benefits:

This is a highly influential role operating across a complex, evolving enterprise environment. Success requires the ability to think strategically, influence broadly, and guide decisions that shape the organizations long-term security posture and technology direction.