Principal Architect, Corporate Cyber Security at F-Secure (Helsingfors, Finland)
Desired Skills and Experience
- The technology and software architecture across all products in the Corporate Cyber Security Business Unit R&D organization.
- Defining the long- term architecture and technology vision for the whole business unit, in alignment with the business goals and objectives of the business unit, having a substantial business and long-term business impact.
- Participation in the company level technology strategy work and liaising with our company wide architecture steering, security laboratories for core security technologies and other units on the common software components.
- Establishing and ensuring that business unit specific technology and architecture governance mechanisms are effective and able to provide visibility and value for decision making
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Setup and lead business unit level decision making and discussion forum(s) for technology and architecture topics.
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Support domain architects in aligning architecture and technology goals against product roadmaps, project portfolio and resource planning.
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Guide the architecture decisions to ensure product and company competitiveness, including effective and effective implementation (cost efficiency, reusability, supportability, maintainability, security, etc.), also driving a healthy balance of long and short-term objectives.
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Lead and participate business unit level technology evaluation work, in co-operation with the other functions and decision making bodies of the company, together with make vs. buy analysis and recommendations.
- Strong software engineering background. Hands on implementation experience also from recent past.
- Strong understanding of modern software architectures.
- Experience in working with public cloud (AWS) and micro services.
- Experience in driving technology choices, including build vs buy evaluations.
- Analytical ability
- Great communication skills both verbal and written, can address different audiences with right level messages.
- Ability to get things done, pragmatic approach to driving things instead of eternal analyses
- Facilitation skills
- Initiative and enthusiasm
- Line management experience
- Passion for Cyber Security
- Passion for creating great software that enables great business
- Enjoy working with others, helping people to succeed