This is a contract opportunity. You will be employed by Magnit to work on assignment with GuideWell and subsidiary companies including Florida Blue. 

The Cybersecurity Architect serves the company as an advisor on best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing project level security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction including but not limited to AI, AI Security, AI Security Architecture, AI Security Research. They are accountable for the security architecture across a variety of applications or domains and assigned to project/initiatives of small to medium size, complexity and risk. The Cybersecurity Architect develops actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines to ensure enterprise information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business. The Cybersecurity Architect will design sub-components of larger security architecture blueprints or projects with narrow focus and complexity. The Cybersecurity Architect performs due-diligence activities including security monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls. The Cybersecurity Architect implements enterprise security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction.

Essential Functions:

• The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.  
• Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting. 
• Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms. Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls. 
• Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs. 
• Participates in security governance processes.  
• Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.    
• Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.     
• Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.    
• Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.  
• Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.   
• Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.    
• Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.  
• Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents. 
• Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.    
• Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints. 
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.     
• Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.  
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.     
• Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.      
• Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.  Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures.  Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs.  Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.   
• Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers. 
• Ability to articulate complex solutions which are comprehensive to the target audience (e.g. technical vs. non-technical).
• Aptitude to identify, analyze and rationalize risks to ensure decisions made are in the best interest of the business, staff and its customers.
• Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
   

Required Work Experience:

• 5+ years related work experience (work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT projects)

Required Education:

• Related bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience    IT related field or equivalent work experience

Required Licenses and Certifications:

• CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Professional:  

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years cloud security experience
• IAM experience with employee and consumer identity security
• Experience securing API’s
• Health care industry related experience is preferred
• Additional Information Security certifications (CISM, CISA, etc) preferred
• Experience using Agile methodology

GuideWell and its family of companies has partnered with Magnit as its Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Employer of Record (EOR) since 2018. In May of 2025, GuideWell joined Magnit Direct Source to implement the GuideWell Contractor Cohort. This program is designed to create, manage and curate a contractor talent pool for temporary contract opportunities with GuideWell. As a contractor working on temporary assignment with GuideWell, you'll be employed by Magnit. You'll have the opportunity to work on temporary projects at GuideWell companies that make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying the benefits of being part of the Magnit team.