IT Security Solution Architect

About the job

Do you want to advise Vattenfall organization about IT Security Tooling & other architectural topics? Architectural methods are your topic of interest? You are aware of most current developments in IT Security Tooling? Then you might be the IT Security Solution Architect for the IT Security Threat Management Team at VIT that we are looking for to further strengthen our IT Security function!

IT Security is an increasingly important discipline for Vattenfall business through a fast evolving digitalization as well as cyber threats and regulations. Therefore, we are looking for an ambitious person with management background and experiences within Security area.

In our department we take care of several aspects of IT Security and you are responsible to develop and maintain appropriate advise and strategy for the Security for TH / RT / TE / BAS / VS tooling:

• Threat Intelligence and Assessments, Threat Hunting, Red Teaming / Threat Emulation

• Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

• Security Content Engineering

• Penetration Testing

• Vulnerability Scanning and Reporting, 

  • incl. Hardening / Compliance Scanning

• Threat Modelling (supporting SCC)

• Training and exercises

• Supporting IT Sec Risk Management

• Driver of short-term mitigations in VIT

• Responsible for Security TH / RT / TE / BAS / VS Tooling

You will be working in the department of YICG(T) and the preferred location for this position is Berlin, but other Vattenfall locations could be an option. We believe that you have possibility to travel regularly to build international relationships within the team and the relevant stakeholders, e.g. to the main Vattenfall locations like Gliwice / Katowice, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Stockholm.
What will you do? 

• thorough understanding of IT Security Management Framework at Vattenfall IT and on Vattenfall Group Level 

• thorough understanding of Threats against IT and abilities to develop, manage and oversee the potential mitigation activities in cooperation with IT Security portfolio

• Lead, manage and motivate the team to achieve tactical and strategic goals - Proactively work with Other Departments to facilitate practices that meet the objectives and standards

• Provide day-to-day analytic and strategic leadership for key organization-wide strategic initiatives to ensure implementation is consistent

• Align with stakeholder of VIT and Business like CIO-Office / IT Strategy Department, Business IT Security representative, line management, IT Risk Management

Location  
Berlin (preferred), Hamburg, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Katowice, Gliwice

Your profile

Who are you? 
As our IT Security Solution Architect, we believe that you have education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree with major course work in business, public administration, and / or information systems and or more than 5 years of experience in IT Security, IT Architecture and or Network Management.

• minimum 2 years of experience in relevant IT position in an international / corporate environment

• are fluent in English, other languages such as Swedish, German, Dutch, Polish are a plus

• you have a high degree of co-operation and collaboration capabilities in a distributed work environment

• you have proven technical or project management expertise in one or more of the infrastructure and/ or application security areas/ projects

• a good understanding of project management is needed, so respective capabilities as Certification IPMA D is of additional value

• Relevant IT security-specific certification will be also an advantage (e.g. CISSP, CISM)

Next to this you bring: 

• The desire to co-operate in an international environment

• Willingness to travel to some Vattenfall or Partner’s locations from time to time

• Strong capabilities to understand and define enterprise level security tooling architecture

• Methods for analytical understanding and documenting existing and future architectural strategy

• Presentation and communication skills to transport your message as IT Security Solution Architect

Additional information

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in ENGLISH, no later than, 11th of June 2023. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 
 
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Dominik Friebe via phone: +49 40 790221374. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

Trade union representatives in Sweden Silvija Vatkovic (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application!