Endpoint Security Architect

Endpoint Security Architect Cybersecurity – Enterprise Cybersecurity Engineering – Endpoint Security Architect Location: This is an in-office position - 4 days onsite based at GPC HQ in Atlanta, GA, or APC HQ in Birmingham, AL. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the designated work location. Up to 20% travel. Southern 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. In 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.

Serve 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. Define and maintain the endpoint security strategy and multi-year roadmap across workstations, servers, mobile devices, and emerging endpoint technologies. Partner with Cybersecurity Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud Security Architecture, AI Governance, and business stakeholders to design endpoint security solutions that reduce risk and enable technology innovation. Guide strategic initiatives from architecture through implementation and operational transition, ensuring delivered solutions remain aligned with approved designs, security requirements, and roadmap outcomes. Lead evaluation, proof-of-concept, selection, and adoption of endpoint security technologies, including Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), mobile security, endpoint hardening, device management, AI-enabled controls, and emerging security capabilities. Conduct architecture reviews and security assessments of endpoint-related technologies, platforms, and projects to identify risks, control gaps, and opportunities for improvement. Establish baselines, maturity measures, strategic metrics, and success criteria to evaluate endpoint security effectiveness and support risk-informed decisions. Develop business cases, technology recommendations, and executive-level presentations that communicate security value, investment needs, roadmap priorities, and risk reduction outcomes. Monitor emerging threats, regulatory requirements, industry trends, and technology advancements to improve endpoint visibility, resilience, detection, response, and efficiency. Define 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. Job Qualifications: Minimum 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, infrastructure security, endpoint security, or related technology disciplines. 3+ years of experience designing, governing, or providing architectural leadership for enterprise cybersecurity solutions. Demonstrated experience defining security standards, architecture patterns, control requirements, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps for enterprise environments. Strong knowledge of endpoint security architectures, including EPP, CrowdStrike Falcon EDR, endpoint hardening, device management, mobile security, and enterprise endpoint visibility. Experience conducting security architecture reviews, risk assessments, and control evaluations to identify risks, gaps, and