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Up to 20% travel.\nSouthern Company is seeking an Endpoint Security Architect to lead enterprise endpoint security architecture. This position defines the strategic vision, technology roadmap, and governance standards for endpoint security across workstations, servers, mobile devices, and emerging endpoint technologies.\nIn this role, you will partner with Cybersecurity Operations, Cybersecurity Architecture, Infrastructure, Cloud Security, and business stakeholders to design endpoint security solutions that reduce risk, enable business objectives, guide technology decisions, and align with enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and evolving threats.\nJob Responsibilities:\nServe as the technical authority and primary subject matter expert for enterprise endpoint security architecture, defining standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and security requirements while providing architectural leadership for strategic initiatives, enterprise deployments, modernization efforts, mergers and acquisitions, and other work impacting endpoint security.\nDefine and maintain the endpoint 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opportunities for improvement.\n\nEstablish baselines, maturity measures, strategic metrics, and success criteria to evaluate endpoint security effectiveness and support risk-informed decisions.\nDevelop business cases, technology recommendations, and executive-level presentations that communicate security value, investment needs, roadmap priorities, and risk reduction outcomes.\n\nMonitor emerging threats, regulatory requirements, industry trends, and technology advancements to improve endpoint visibility, resilience, detection, response, and efficiency.\nDefine endpoint security controls for AI-enabled technologies, endpoint-based AI workloads, copilots, automation platforms, and emerging agentic technologies in partnership with Cloud Security Architecture and AI Governance stakeholders.\nJob Qualifications:\nMinimum\n7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, infrastructure security, endpoint security, or related technology disciplines.\n3+ years of experience 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