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This role is open for Zaragoza & Herzo location Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: The Senior director Information Security Architect is responsible for the selection, design, justification, implementation and operation of controls and management strategies to maintain the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and relevant compliance of information systems with legislation, regulation, and relevant standards. The primary focus of the role is to set the Information security strategy domain strategy, roadmap 3-5 years, review existing technologies against strategy & roadmap, create solution designs/standards/patterns, acting as the subject matter expert and guiding the design to meet the overall objectives for the information security domain. In this role Information security strategy, technology roadmap and secure by design are combined with the delivery teams responsible for the execution of the Infosec program to ensure the implementation of security controls and transformation. Key Responsibilities: Information security Directs the development, implementation, delivery, and support of an enterprise information security strategy aligned to the strategic requirements of the business. Ensures compliance between business strategies and information security and leads the provision of information security resources expertise, guidance, and systems necessary to execute strategic and operational plans across all the organization’s information systems. Consultancy Manages provision of consultancy services, and/or management of a team of consultants. Provides advice and guidance to consultants and/or the internal stakeholders and maintains relationships. Improves consultancy and infosec demand services on a continuous basis. Establishes agreements/contracts and manages completion and disengagement. Specialist advice Provides organizational leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of specialist knowledge in the organization. Maintains a network of recognized experts (inside and/or outside the organization) who can deliver expert advice in areas relevant to the organization’s current and future needs. Provides input into professional development planning across a significant part of the organization to further the development of appropriate expertise. Research Builds on and refines appropriate ideas for the evaluation, development, demonstration, and implementation of research. Contributes to research goals and funding proposals. Collects and analyses qualitative and quantitative data as required. Creates research reports to communicate research methodology, findings, and conclusions. Presents papers at conferences, contributes significant sections of material of publication quality, and presents reports to clients. Contributes to research plans and identifies appropriate opportunities for publication and dissemination of research findings. Makes an active contribution to research communities. Emerging technology monitoring Plans and leads the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies and the evaluation of the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities. Creates technology roadmaps which align organizational plans with emerging technology solutions. Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organizational commitment to technology roadmaps. Develops organizational guidelines for monitoring emerging technologies. Collaborates with internal and external parties to facilitate intelligence gathering. Security administration Develops technical policies, standards, processes, guidelines for ensuring the physical and electronic security of automated systems. Ensures that the policy and standards for security administration are fit for purpose, current and are correctly implemented. Reviews new business proposals and provides specialist advice on security issues and implications. Digital forensic Support the incident response team with technical knowledge and understanding of the TECH landscape across functions to support the incident response process. Relationship management Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans. Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders and delivery of services and change projects, acting as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them. Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined. Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback. Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders. Delivery & transformation Manages the team of project managers responsible for the process of integrating demand management with complementary strategic, operational and change management processes. Ensures quality of delivery and performance of programs, projects and portfolio, and ensures reporting to measure overall performance. Responsible for the integration between the teams within scope and adjust strategy, process and delivery based on the feedback and outcome of delivery. People Management / Resource Management: Responsible for salary reviews, recruitment, selection, assessment, on-boarding and transitioning of resources. Manages the effective implementation of resource planning, recruitment, selection, assessment, on-boarding and transitioning of resources. Advises on standards, methods, and tools for resource management. Ensures compliance with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of good practice. Contributes to the development of resource management policies, standards, and guidelines and to audits and assessment of resource management processes. Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development Allocate the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs. Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives Key Relationships: Global IT Respective business function (Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) HR (Senior) Management Controlling Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience Proficient spoken and written command of English At least 15-year experience in IT 12 years of experience in relevant area 10 years of experience in team management including professional grade