Cyber Security Architect

Position: Cyber Security Architect Location: Sweden Contract Duration: 6 Months (Extendable) Employment Type: Contract NO Visa Sponsorship About the Role We are seeking an experienced and strategic Cyber Security Architect to lead the development of enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture capabilities, strategies, and roadmaps. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping the organization's cybersecurity architecture landscape, ensuring that security capabilities align with business objectives, enterprise architecture principles, and evolving cyber threats. This position requires a strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, security engineering, and governance, along with the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders across multiple technology and business domains. Key Responsibilities1. Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy & Architecture

• Define and drive the enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Assess existing security capabilities, identify architectural gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Develop target-state security architectures aligned with business priorities, risk appetite, and technology strategies.
• Ensure cybersecurity architecture supports scalability, resilience, regulatory compliance, and enterprise transformation initiatives.

1. Security Capability Architecture

• Design and enhance enterprise security capabilities across key domains, including:
• Data & Information Security: Data protection, encryption, classification, access controls, and information governance.
• Threat Detection & Response: Security monitoring, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence, and incident response capabilities.
• AI Security: Secure AI adoption, AI governance, model security, and emerging AI-related cybersecurity risks.
• Infrastructure & Platform Security: Cloud security, network security, endpoint protection, identity management, and platform security.

1. Security Architecture Standards & Governance

• Establish and maintain security architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guardrails.
• Develop reusable security reference architectures, blueprints, and design frameworks.
• Provide architectural guidance to security engineering teams and domain security architects.
• Review solution architectures to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards.
• Promote security-by-design and Zero Trust principles across technology initiatives.

1. Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Architecture, Cyber Engineering, and domain security teams.
• Communicate architectural strategies, recommendations, and roadmaps to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, and strategic discussions.
• Build consensus around security architecture decisions and drive adoption of enterprise security standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Cyber Security Architect, Enterprise Security Architect, or in a similar senior architecture role.
• Strong expertise in defining enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture strategies, principles, and roadmaps.
• Hands-on architectural experience across data security, threat detection and response, AI security, and infrastructure/platform security.
• Experience developing security reference architectures, architectural patterns, and security blueprints.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture methodologies and security governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, and security-by-design principles.
• Experience working with cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements and cybersecurity risks into practical architectural solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in complex enterprise environments.