Healthcare Security Architect

Job Description

Healthcare Security Architect

12 Month contract

100% Remote

Position Summary

The Security Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing the enterprise security architecture for Emerge.

This role ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patient health information (PHI), clinical systems, and services delivered to Community Connect clinics.

The Security Architect collaborates with IT, Risk, Ethics, and Compliance, Legal, business stakeholders, and vendors to establish scalable, secure, compliant, and user-friendly technology solutions that protect the organization and the clinics we serve from emerging threats.

Key Responsibilities

Security Architecture & Design

Continue to develop and maintain Emerges enterprise security architecture as we grow, ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Architect and implement secure solutions which serve our clinics and their needs

Define and maintain security reference architectures, diagrams, and standards.

Conduct security risk assessments and threat modeling for new technologies, vendors, and client sites.

Technology & Implementation

Evaluate the current security capability landscape at Emerge and recommend solutions

Lead the design and deployment of these security controls

Evaluate and implement current technology suite for optimizations

Oversee secure configuration of existing systems

Collaboration & Leadership

Serve as a technical security advisor to IT, clinicians, and leadership teams.

Provide guidance to engineering, networking, and application teams to ensure secure design principles are followed.

Lead security architecture reviews, vendor evaluations, and technology roadmapping.

Incident Response & Monitoring

Contribute to the development and maintenance of the incident response plan.

Support investigations involving malware, ransomware, phishing, and unauthorized access.

Interpret logs, alerts, and telemetry to improve defensive posture.

Qualifications

Top Skills:

1. Healthcare - HIPAA, PHI

2. Azure Security tools such Entra/Sentinel/Defender

Required

• Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in information security or infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years in a security
• architecture role.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA Security Rule, HITECH, and PHI protection requirements.
• Experience designing secure architectures for cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Hands-on experience with security tools (EDR/XDR, SIEM, IAM/MFA, DLP, firewalls, vulnerability
• management).
• Knowledge of network protocols, identity architectures, authentication, encryption, and zero trust principles.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM,

Preferred

Experience in healthcare, multi site environments, or cloud-native environments

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Key Competencies

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non technical stakeholders.

Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines across a distributed environment.