ABOUT THIS POSITION

With more than 14,000 employees working across 41 departments, the City of Phoenix offers opportunity for career growth and advancement. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, working in public service offers many rewards! Be a part of building the Phoenix of tomorrow.

The Information Technology Services department has an opening for a Security Architect. In this role you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the information security architecture that address the City of Phoenix's current and emerging business application and infrastructure requirements, both on premise and cloud based. Currently this position supervises a small team and reports directly to the Principal Information Security Architect.

Responsibilities include:

• Refine, drive, and deliver major components of the City's Information Security Office (ISO) security strategy.
• Stay abreast on new security technologies, standards, and enterprise frameworks and integrate when possible.
• Provide and manage Information Security architecture direction to major programs in the areas of enterprise applications, cloud technologies, infrastructure, and other business operations.
• Define current state and set future direction of cloud, infrastructure, and application security architecture landscape.
• Design and engineer secure and resilient solutions to meet customer needs or to address critical audit findings while protecting the City's data assets.
• Develop target state enterprise-level information security architectures.
• Define controls, standards, and security best practices.
• Reviews current state security architecture, identify gaps, and recommend security enhancements.
• Helps to ensure security standards are met or are mitigated and documented appropriately.
• Research, analyze, and propose security solution alternatives that address specific business needs while understanding the fiscal impact of those proposals.
• Partner with the City's enterprise senior IT leaders and subject matter experts to assist with developing roadmaps for technology projects, service standards, and governance that impact the City's operations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other architects and engineers.
• Assist executive leadership with development of plans to acquire, train, and retain high performing technical talent in critical areas.
• Prepare and deliver effective documentation and briefs to leadership regarding overall enterprise architecture and design.
• Build consensus and cooperation with departments.
• Evaluate all city procurements for security best practices.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

• The ideal candidate is a strategic business partner with robust experience in the field of information security.

SALARY

Pay Range: $102,668.80 to $151,694.00/annually.

Hiring Range: $102,668.80 to $137,592.00/annually.

Pay Range Explanation:

• Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
• Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

BENEFITS

A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:

• Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information
• 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions
• Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans
• Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan
• Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually
• Dental, vision, and life insurance options
• Employer paid long-term disability
• Free Bus/light rail pass
• Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year
• Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days
• Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi

For more details, visit: Unit 007 Benefits

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Three years of experience developing, evaluating, using, and maintaining technical system hardware and software.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math or a related field.
• Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
• The City job description can be found here .
• All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.
• This position is subject to Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) background standards. Candidates who receive a conditional offer of employment must be fingerprinted and will have their fingerprints used to check the Criminal History Records of the State of Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Any records returned will be reviewed to determine the candidate's suitability for the job.
• For information regarding pre-screening and driving positions, click here .

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:

• Five years of experience in Information Security.
• Five years of experience in Cloud Computing and Cloud Security.
• Five years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
• Five years of experience using and managing network devices and security controls including but not limited to: firewalls, IDS, IPS, VPNs, routers, switches, load balancers, proxies, wireless access points, wireless controllers, access controls, and network protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, IPSEC, etc.)
• Three years of experience in an IT leadership position.
• Three years of experience dealing with cybersecurity threats both internal and external information security architecture.
• Information security certifications in CISSP, CISM, CCSP or other security related certifications.
• Vendor certifications in Microsoft Azure or other related certifications.

RECRUITMENT DATES

Recruitment closes June 18, 2024. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.

This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list. This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.

During the online application process, you will provide responses to questions regarding your experience and qualifications (the system allows copy/pasting into the answer fields). Information you provide in these questions should align to the information in your resume. Information not consistent with your resume may not be considered when determining your education and/or experience level.

• Please list any Information Security Certifications you have.
• Please list any vendor certifications you have.

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REFERENCE

Lead Info Tech Systems Spec, JC:09580, ID# 54549, 5/31/2024, USM, KA, Benefits: 007.

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City of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national service alumni who meet the required qualifications are encouraged to apply.