About This Role

The Enterprise Cloud Security Architect reports to the Director of Security Engineering and Architecture and is responsible for the integration and development of standards, processes, tools, technologies, and security service offerings. This individual will leverage leading-edge technologies, and innovative approaches to position Biogen for measurable success; improving efficiency, increasing security posture, supporting aggressive growth and improving the Biogen’s overall Cyber Security posture.

We are looking for someone with subject matter expertise in Enterprise Security Architecture Governance and industry standard Cyber Security frameworks, Cloud Computing, cloud architecture.

What You’ll Do

This is a highly visible role. The right candidate must have excellent engagement and communication skills and must have a strong customer-focused, team-oriented, approach that balances security needs and user experience to provide best-in-class security to the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with enterprise IT architects, engineering, and security specialists to ensure adequate security solutions and controls are in place throughout all IT systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Assess and understand the Biogen’s current security posture and future architecture, providing recommendations for improvement and risk reduction
• Develop the business, information, and technical artifacts that constitute the enterprise information security architecture and solutions
• Serve as a security expert in application development, database design, network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and security policies, industry regulations, and best practices
• Develop Security architecture, frameworks, and standards
• Evaluate and develop secure solutions, based on approved security architectures
• Communicate security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff
• Design security configuration guidelines for information technology devices and systems, as well as mechanisms for assessing compliance within those guidelines

Required Skills

Basic Qualifications

• 5-10 Years of combined experience in Information Security or Cloud Computing
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or equivalent industry experience is highly preferred.
• CISSP Certification
• Well-rounded background in host, network, database, application security including mobile and web
• Experience as a technical lead or experience leading projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Experience administering network devices, databases, and/or web application servers;

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills including the ability to influence others, including proven ability to build strong relationships with leadership, IT staff and peers
• SANS Certifications
• Understanding of cloud technologies and services with enterprise-level design experience
• Strong experience with AWS security solutions and in securing AWS workloads;
• Understanding and experience securing CDN technologies (Akamai, Cloudfront, etc.), effective authentication and authorization strategies for edge-node served content, and general content protection strategies
• Experience in application security, with experience in OWASP ASVS, secure SDLC processes
• Strong experience with security technologies, including NextGen Firewalls, DLP, web filtering, NAC, IDS/IPS, IdAM, Certificate Management, SIEM, Endpoint Protection, Anti-malware, vulnerability management
• Strong oral, written, and presentation abilities - able to convey risk to all levels of the business, from C-level executives to operations and development teams
• Current understanding of Industry trends and emerging threats

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.   

The base compensation range for this role is $137,000 to $210,800. Base salary is determined by a combination of factors including, but not limited to, job related years of relevant experience, internal equity, and location of the job. Additionally, this role is eligible for participation in Biogen’s LTI grants and other incentive programs. Biogen offers a full range of benefits that include medical, dental, life, long and short-term disability insurances, vacation, end-of-year shutdown, and 401K participation and matching contributions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.