Azure Security Architect

Title: Azure Security Architect Location: Kansas, USA. Remote with periodic participation in project and governance meetings. Contract Responsibilities Review and challenge solution architectures, designs, and implementation plans. Assess solutions for security, resiliency, governance, and operational readiness. Evaluate identity, access management, networking, data protection, logging, monitoring, and third-party integrations.

Conduct architecture and security reviews at key project milestones. Identify risks, control gaps, and remediation recommendations. Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements related to finance systems. Assess ERP/GL, subledger, FP&A, reporting, data platform, integration, and identity/access designs for security and control implications Maintain security risks, decisions, assumptions, and control gaps in alignment with program RAID, decision log, and governance processes Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Governance, Compliance, Project Management, and external vendors.

Provide executive-level summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations. Required Experience 10+ years of enterprise architecture and cloud experience. 5+ years designing and governing Microsoft Azure environments. Strong cybersecurity architecture background, including Zero Trust and cloud security. Experience with large transformation programs, ERP/GL implementations, or finance system modernization.

Experience reviewing security architecture across SaaS, cloud, integration, data platform, and enterprise identity environments Ability to translate technical security risks into business-relevant recommendations for program leaders and executives Deep knowledge of: Azure Architecture & Governance Microsoft Entra ID RBAC and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Azure Networking Microsoft Defender Microsoft Sentinel Data Protection and Security Monitoring Experience working with auditors, risk teams, and compliance frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, TOGAF, or equivalent certifications Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or other regulated industries Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SOX controls Deliverables Architecture and security review reports Risk and control gap assessments Phase-gate security readiness assessments Executive presentations and recommendations for program leadership Design review participation throughout the program Security control traceability and audit-readiness support for finance systems Ongoing advisory support for project and governance teams All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.