# Principal Security Architect

Job Description: We are looking to add a Principal Security Architect to join our Information Security team in West Des Moines, Iowa. Offering a forward-thinking, innovative, and vibrant company culture, along with the opportunity to share your unique potential, there really is no place like Holmes! The Principal Security Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for designing and advancing enterprise security architecture across data protection, Microsoft security technologies, identity, cloud, and Security Operations. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on technical leadership to reduce risk and implement scalable security solutions. Essential Responsibilities: Define and maintain enterprise security architecture, standards, and security design patterns. Lead data security architecture using Varonis and Microsoft Purview, including data discovery, classification, sensitivity labeling, access governance, and DLP. Design and improve security monitoring, SOC/MDR, SIEM, detection, and incident response capabilities. Provide architectural leadership across Microsoft Entra ID, Defender XDR, Sentinel, Intune, and Microsoft 365 security. Support identity and Zer

- **Id**: 4041462
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/holmes-murphy-principal-security-architect>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Des Moines, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T22:17:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:17:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10026
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Health Insurance & Benefits, Insurance Brokers & Agencies

## Company

- **Id**: 1897327
- **Name**: Holmes Murphy
- **Domain**: holmesmurphy.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/holmesmurphy>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 39
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Defense in Depth** — Optional: no
- **DLP** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: no
- **MITRE ATT&CK** — Optional: no
- **NIST CSF** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T22:17:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T00:23:03Z

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