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The role of the Cloud Security Architect demands business intellect, technical acuity, and the ability to think, communicate, and write at various levels of abstraction, business acumen, and technical capacity. The Cloud Security Architect is a resource to identify and resolve technology-related information security gaps based on the organization's risk posture with guidance and input from peers. This is accomplished by maintaining a focus on cloud security while retaining enterprise security functions. This individual embraces teamwork, collaboration, and consensus driven decision making and has seasoned negotiation and influencing skills.

The Cloud Security Architect will implement, with guidance from Senior and Principal Cloud Security Architects, the following key functional areas:

• Serve as an information security liaison to business leaders, executive sponsors, senior service/product owners, and third parties.
• Lead information security efforts by guiding work throughout projects, initiatives, program increments, workshops, design/solution sessions, and consulting work.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across engineering, enterprise architecture, OIS, and development practices to solve complex problems and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Lead efforts that relate to creating and updating cloud and enterprise information security policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Advocate for the use of strong security principles and strategies throughout the organization.
• Identify, prioritize, and elevate areas of inefficiencies, high risk information security practices, or sub-optimal operational outcomes and consult on strategies to remediate.
• Help drive consensus on relevant strategies or initiatives with stakeholders, customers, and business leaders to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Work with a high level of autonomy while keeping the CISO, security leadership, and OIS informed of risks, new work, roadblocks, and organizational developments.
• Maintain strong relationships by guiding customers and stakeholders on the applicability of security architecture as it relates to their area of responsibility.
• Develop and defend security architectures or strategic security direction to executive leaders, customers, stakeholders, and technical implementation teams.
• Identify, help prioritize, and justify work efforts to IT, solution architects, enterprise architects, engineers, and analysts.
• Represent management and communicate OIS strategy as the technical lead for projects and cross departmental efforts within research, education, patient care, and with external partners.
• Maintain a reputation of positive leadership throughout OIS and act as a mentor and trainer to OIS colleagues.

This is a hybrid position and the incumbent must live within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus.

Mayo Clinic will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position including F1 OPT STEM.

An Associate's degree and 10 years of experience related to Information Systems or an accumulated equivalent body of work. Alternatively, a Bachelor's degree and 8 years of similar experience.

• 6 years of experience in a Cybersecurity focused field.
• o OR a Cybersecurity relevant Master’s degree and 4 years of experience in a Cybersecurity focused field.
• 2 years of demonstrated leadership experience.
• 1 year of experience working as a Cybersecurity practitioner relating to IaaS or PaaS within one of the major public cloud service providers, such as GCP or Azure is strongly preferred.

The Cloud Security Architect is expected to be competent in a complementary mixture of the following skills and abilities:

Take enterprise and cloud initiatives, extract meaningful business requirements, translate them into information security requirements, and demonstrate completeness by incorporating them into the design to fit the needs of the customer and stakeholders.

Advise on and develop cybersecurity strategy, within the enterprise and cloud, to align with operational activities, and communicate broadly across OIS.

Perform threat modeling to provide traceability in enterprise and cloud security designs while incorporating potential business impact.

Research and evaluate modern technologies to stay current on emerging topics.

Guide efforts as it relates to enterprise and cloud security risk functions such as risk remediation, quantification, acceptance, reduction, and transference.

Possess deep discipline expertise within at least one of the major Cybersecurity domains while maintaining broad cross-discipline expertise: Risk Management, Asset Security, Security Architecture & Engineering, Communications & Network Security, Identity and Access Management, Security Assessment & Testing, Security Operations, and Software Development Security.

Maintain the ability to speak to and comprehend, at an expert level, all applicable security principles, frameworks, policies, standards, and theory.

Ability to design Enterprise, Cloud, Multi-cloud, and Hybrid-cloud architectures to deliver associated artifacts in the form of conceptual and logical architectures as well as technical design documents.

Redesign information security components of legacy on-premises environments as they transition into the cloud.

Competencies in threat modeling, designing, and solutioning enterprise & cloud architectures around Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning Virtual Machines (DLVM), High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Data Analysis (HPDA), Data Lakes (DL), and supporting infrastructure.

Experience leading, collaborating, and contributing to deliver secure outcomes with at least one major public cloud service provider, preferably GCP or Azure.

Experience designing with security-focused cloud native services such as: VPCs Service Controls, Identity Aware/Contextual Proxies, Cloud Identity & Access Management, Web Application Firewalls, API Gateways, Secrets/Key Management, and other applicable applications or services.

Experience designing secure environments for cloud native services such as: Compute, Kubernetes, Container Registries, Databases, Pub/Sub, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Consoles, Serverless Computing, and other applicable applications or services.

Able to incorporate applicable HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, NIST, GDPR, and PCI-DSS requirements into enterprise and cloud architectures.

Must have one of the following certifications (or equivalent) at time of hire or the candidate must pass the exam within two years and complete the certification process once years of service requirements of the certifying body have been met.

• CISSP
• HCISPP
• CDPSE
• CCSP
• Google - Professional Cloud Architect (GPCA)
• CISSP-ISSAP
• SABSA (SCF, SCP, and/or SCM)
• CRISC

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• Medical:Multiple plan options.
• Dental:Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
• Vision:Affordable plan with national network.
• Pre-Tax Savings:HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
• Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

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• Job Identification 387511
• Job Category Information Security
• Posting Date 07/22/2026, 03:33 PM
• Apply Before 07/30/2026, 03:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 55901
• Benefits Eligible Yes
• Remote worker Flexibility of both remote and on-site work
• Compensation Detail $107,452.80 - $150,425.60 / year
• Union Job No
• Area of Interest 1 Information Security
• Marketing Category 1 Information Technology