Freelance Enterprise Security ArchitectTo start ASAP in Brussels, Hybrid until end of 2026Position Overview: The Enterprise Security Architect is responsible for designing, planning, and overseeing an organization's comprehensive security architecture, ensuring it aligns with business strategies and goals. This role bridges the gap between business needs and security technology solutions, managing security across solutions, business processes, and technology infrastructure while enabling agility, resilience, and innovation. The Enterprise Security Architect ensures that all architectural decisions proactively address current and emerging threats while supporting long-term business objectives. Key Responsibilities:Developing and Maintaining Security Architecture: creating and maintaining a comprehensive enterprise security architecture that protects the organization's assets, data, and infrastructure while supporting its goals and objectives. Security Architecture Modeling and Management: defining and maintaining maintaining security architecture blueprints, principles, and reference models that guide security technology decisions across the organization, including zero-trust frameworks and defense-in-depth strategies. Strategic Alignment: ensuring that security solutions align with business strategies and objectives, balancing risk management with operational efficiency and enabling secure business innovation. Collaboration and Communication: working with stakeholders across different departments and levels - inclduing IT, legal, compliance, and executive leadership - to understand their needs and communicate security architectural decisions clearly. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment: identifying, assessing, and prioritizing security risks across the enterprise architecture, developing mitigation strategies and ensuring appropriate controls are in place.Technology Evaluation and Recommendation: researching and evaluating emerging security technologies, tools, and practices, assessing their potential impact on the organization's security posture and recommending appropriate solutions. Governance and Standards: developing and implementing security architectural standards, policies, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality across the organization.Guiding, supporting and coaching of solution architects: ensuring transfer of knowledge (security frameworks, architectural decisions, threat intelligence) and providing mentoring and coaching to solution and security architects.Actively contributing to the community of enterprise architects so that the enterprise architecture becomes more coherent and we can learn more quickly as a group.Required Qualifications:Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related field.A proven track record of 10+ years of progressive experience in security architecture, information security, or other senior technology roles.Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture principles and best practices.Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SABSA, Zachman) and their application to security architecture.Familiarity with security standards and regulations such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, GDPR, and relevant industry-specific compliance requirements.Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skillsExperience in developing and implementing security governance processes, policies, and risk management frameworks. Nice to Have:Experience in financial services, insurance, or other regulated industries.Hands-on experience with cloud security architecture across major platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms and advanced threat detection capabilities.