Principal Security Engineer

The PrincipalSecurityEngineersetsthe technical strategy for the overall architecture, roadmap, and framework used in the security solutions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Patterson’s information assets and systems.This rolerepresentsthe highest level ofexpertiseacross multiple domains of information security architecture. Servingas a strategic security consultant for both internal and external systems, the roleis responsible fordesigning solutions, evaluating vendor products, developing business cases, and ensuring alignment with the organization's security architecture. Additionally, this role leads engineers in implementing, deploying, and transitioning solutions into production while overseeing the overall security architecture lifecycle.

*This role will be Hybrid (2-days a week in office), and it is required that you are located within 50 miles of our Corporate Offices in either Mendota Heights, MN or Loveland, CO. In-person attendance is expected to foster collaboration, innovation, and team connection.

Essential Functions

• Champion the design, development, and establishment of information security architecture standards for security solutions while ensuring thorough documentation; communicate complex security architectural concepts and principals to technical and non-technical audiences

• Lead and implement a comprehensivedata protection strategy,technology platform,and complianceroadmap, aligning it with current goals andobjectives, while integrating the existing IT Infrastructure and Security roadmap.​

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives tooptimizeperformance, cost-effectiveness, and operational efficiency of our cloud environments andsecuritytechnology portfolio.

• Advise key stakeholders and drive the translation of complex business requirements into robust, security-first designs for Azureand multiple-cloudsolutions. 

• Ensure alignment witha well-architectedframeworkwhilebalancing security, performance, and businessobjectives. Leverage deep business acumen tocreatesolutions that not only mitigate risks but also enable strategic growth and innovation.

• Through collaborationwith the Enterprise Architecture and IT Infrastructure teams, design and document detailed Azuresecurityarchitecturesutilizingservices likecompute, storage, networking, databases, and application services.

• Provide escalated support for Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Azure issues, serving as a liaison for problem management between the functional team and Microsoft for security related issues.

• Product and technical ownership ofdata protection solutions such asMicrosoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, InformationProtectionandotherData Loss Prevention (DLP)solutions.

• Oversight of sensitive data cataloging, classification, and labeling strategies.

• Serve as the technical data protectionsubject matter expert-forenterpriseproject advising on secure handling requirements and solution design for sensitive data (e.g., PCI,ePHI,PII), including tools and capabilities such as redaction/tokenization and data loss prevention.

• Partner with IT Risk & Compliance and Regulatory Compliance to design, implement, andmaintainan enterprise Data Protection Matrix,establishingstandardized security patterns for sensitive data.

• Conduct security design reviews for data protection initiatives, document findings, and drive action-item closure to reduce risk and align implementations to enterprise security standards,and activelyparticipatein architectural review boards, working groups, committees, and other oversight and governance forums asrequired.

The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount would be based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills. $123,200.00 - $154,100.00