Security Architect

Security Architect

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

• Working with the segment Business Information Security Leader, serve as the primary security subject matter expert to programs and product delivery teams to provide security-by-design support.

• Provide security solution support across a broad range of security domains through:

  • Understand business needs and comprehend associated threats.

  • Publish security requirements.

  • Provide engineering guidance and solution patterns to a cross functional engineering organization.

  • Lead security design reviews.

• Using data and telemetry from security tools provide reinforcement of risks to product teams.

• Maintain a strong understanding of the evolving cyber security threat landscape and modern engineering patterns.

• As part of the Security Architecture organization:

  • Contribute and be the point of contact for Syneos Health’s Architecture Review Board.

  • Partner with domain security architects to address program solution gaps.

  • Accelerate delivery through the adoption of AI tools

• Act as the security escalation point for delivery teams, identifying risks and blockers early and driving timely resolution.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (please indicate if ‘preferred’)

• Security Advisory / Product Security

  • 7 years’ experience with executing secure-by-design agile processes across multiple large programs.

  • Proven ability to partner with business segment product teams to deliver secure solutions in a clinical setting.

  • Strong presentation and communication skills for technical and business audiences.

  • Working experience with using AI tools to accelerate delivery of security-by-design processes.

  • Working experience with common security frameworks NIST, ISO 27001, Hitrust, CSF, Mitre Att&ck.

• Technical

  • Strong design proficiency in multiple security domains including:

    • Modern cloud security for tenants, landing zone and workload architectures for Azure, GCP or AWS

    • Data protection solutions (Preferred Microsoft Purview, DLP)

    • Software Engineering and API Security.

    • Enterprise Identity (Preferred: Entra, Auth0, MFA).

    • Understanding how to secure SaaS applications.

    • Mobile Device Security.

• Ability to grasp new technology concepts and understand security needs quickly.

• Strong experience building solution architect and engineering patterns.

• Experience with:

  • Securing AI applications (GenAI, Agentic AI)

  • Jira or other collaboration tools

• Education:

  • College degree or relevant experience in the cyber security engineering field.

  • CISSP

  • Cloud Certification for (Azure, GCP preferred)

  • AI certifications

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.