Sr. Data Security Architect

About the job

The Senior Data Security Architect plays a vital role in providing senior technical and security leadership for enterprise identity, authentication, authorization, directory, and access-management capabilities. The position focuses on developing and promoting Identity and Access Management strategies, architecture, standards, and policies and provides architectural leadership for identity solutions supporting clinical, business, cloud, and enterprise technology environments.

The Senior Data Security Architect will serve as a subject matter expert for identity security, working across Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, application teams, business stakeholders, and technology partners to ensure access is appropriately governed throughout the identity lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on digital identity management related matters. Collaborate with business owners, service owners, risk and technical teams to design, implement, and maintain digital identity management processes support organizational goals and objectives.
• Perform periodic review of digital identity management processes to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support where needed the execution and delivery of digital identity management processes and activities.
• Track, document, and report digital identity management control gaps and exceptions, guide remediation activities and manage issues to closure.
• Review and revise as needed digital identity management policies, standards, and procedures to ensure continued alignment with current processes, organizational requirements and applicable laws and regulations.
• Provide advisory support to all digital identity management workstreams. Create and maintain digital identity management departmental templates, working instructions and training materials. Support the onboarding and training of new digital identity management staff as well as enterprise training and awareness.
• Drive and support digital identity management related projects and initiatives including management of target completion dates, project reporting and preparation of executive level presentations.
• Serve as a digital identity management subject matter expert to various departments and project teams, offering guidance as needed and responding to internal and external requests related to digital identity management processes.
• Develop or assist in creating executive-level presentations, reports, and dashboards that communicate digital identity management performance, metrics, and control effectiveness to leadership for strategic decision-making.
• Participate in the review and evaluation of new digital identity management technology tools and serve as a representative of the digital identity management team on committees, forums and collaborative endeavors as needed.

Qualifications

Required:

• H.S. Diploma or GED
• 7 years: experience in information services (IS), computer management, or IS networking experience, including at least five (5) years of information security experience

Preferred:

• Bachelor ’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, or related field preferred.
• 3 –5 years of experience in IT, information security, or risk management within a regulated industry preferred.
• Working knowledge of frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA Security Rule, and state or accreditation-based security standards (e.g., Texas HHS, TDI, Joint Commission) preferred.
• Familiarity with internal controls over financial reporting audit requirements such as SOX, AFRMR (MAR) preferred.
• Experience leading enterprise initiatives. Strong project management and presentation creation and delivery skills are highly desired.
• Experience using ServiceNow, or SailPoint strongly preferred.
• Understanding of Digital Identity Management practices and risk controls.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into business-relevant insights.

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 427927
• Job Category: Information Services
• Posting Date: 2026-11-05
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 1102 Bates Ave, Houston, TX, 77030, US (Hybrid)