Security Architect

Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with another location in Hanoi, Vietnam. International candidates are welcome to relocate to Vietnam.

Company

hirify.global’s Group Security – Security Consulting function provides security architecture and consulting support for technology and business initiatives.

What you will do

• Provide security architecture leadership and advise business, project, architecture, and technical teams on security impacts.
• Assess proposed solutions against information risk policies, security requirements, governance practices, and the organisation’s risk appetite.
• Analyse systems, applications, solution designs, and non-standard flows to identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
• Define security controls, countermeasures, alternative solutions, and compensating controls across identity and access, data and media protection, SIEM, communications, configurations, and vulnerability management.
• Develop conceptual and logical security architecture designs, control reference patterns, reusable components, and enterprise security capability patterns.
• Influence senior stakeholders, manage significant architectural decisions, support architecture forums, and coach colleagues on security and risk management.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in the technology industry, including either at least 2 years in Security Architecture or at least 5 years in Solution Architecture with significant security exposure.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent technical qualification.
• Strong business engagement, stakeholder influence, commercial acumen, negotiation, and business-alignment skills.
• Ability to provide fact-based analysis, navigate complex security and architecture topics, handle difficult conversations, and communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to assess solutions against information risk policies, security requirements, and agreed risk appetite.
• Strong understanding of conceptual and logical security architecture models, controls, security risk, assurance, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Experience identifying security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and determining appropriate controls, countermeasures, alternative solutions, and compensating controls.
• Understanding of Identity and Access, Data and Media Protection, Security Information and Event Management, Communications, Configurations, and Vulnerability Management.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or applying security control reference patterns and enterprise security capabilities; strong coaching and mentoring capabilities.
• Demonstrated Decision Quality, Strategic Mindset, Situational Adaptability, Self-Awareness, Courage, and Ensuring Accountability.

Nice to have

• Relevant security certifications, such as CSSP.
• Architecture or technology certifications, such as SABSA or Cloud Security certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within Group Security – Security Consulting and report to the Lead Security Consultant.
• Collaborate with business domain executives, Product Owners, technology delivery teams, Release Train Engineers, Architecture and Strategy teams, and Governance, Risk and Compliance stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted security adviser and support the professional development of colleagues through knowledge sharing and mentoring.

Hiring process

• If no response is received from hirify.global within 10 workdays after applying, the application should be considered unsuccessful.