Full-Time

Senior Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect

Updated on 9/10/2026

Airbus

Airbus

10,001+ employees

Manufacturer of commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense

No salary listed

Marseille, France

Remote

Bachelor's

Category
Cybersecurity (1)
Required Skills
Cybersecurity
Risk Management
Cryptography
Penetration Testing

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Requirements
  • You have an engineering-school diploma or equivalent in cybersecurity, or significant experience in cybersecurity.
  • You have at least 10 years of experience in security and have worked on major projects across several sectors.
  • You know the fundamentals of related security professions, including risk management, auditing, software development, penetration testing, project management, and sales.
  • You can apply defensive-security principles and provide a critical view of existing implementations.
  • You have advanced skills in secure architecture design, cloud, cryptography, identity and access management, network and communications-protocol security, or operating-system security.
  • You are able to work across the organization and support less-experienced colleagues.
  • You can adapt to different situations and work autonomously.
  • You can support security standards and regulations and their practical application.
  • You have an advanced level of English.
  • You must hold or be eligible to obtain a security clearance from recognized authorities.
Responsibilities
  • Ensure that the technical and technological choices of IT and business projects comply with the organization's security strategy.
  • Act as the technical security authority for enterprise information-system architectures.
  • Define security models and support architecture development consistently with IT strategy and organizational security policies.
  • Establish information-system security architecture strategies aligned with business strategy, risk-analysis security objectives, and the company's overall security strategy.
  • Apply reference models to architectures.
  • Help translate security policies into operational security standards.
  • Support projects in architecture design, specify configuration parameters, and define technical security requirements.
  • Advise on technical-solution selection and recommend secure information-system architectures, ensuring regulatory compliance where applicable.
  • Regularly review existing architectures, identify gaps, and recommend security improvements.
  • Define security testing and validation strategies and monitor recommendation follow-up.
  • Advise on the use and combination of existing security components.
  • Analyze security implications of introducing new technologies or information systems.
  • Monitor technology developments and incorporate them into security-architecture definitions.
  • Contribute to improving information-system security maturity among technical architects and enterprise architects.
  • Collaborate with technical security specialists to consolidate a global view of defensive information-system security.
  • Explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical functions.
  • Provide high-value advisory support to top management and expert support on technically complex subjects.
  • Contribute to knowledge transfer, technical capitalization, publications, conferences, working groups, state-of-the-art reviews, and thesis-topic follow-up.
Desired Qualifications
  • Additional skills in design methods, systems engineering and security, security-product configuration and hardening, or system auditability and incident management are advantageous.
  • Leadership, self-confidence, knowledge sharing, curiosity, and dynamism are valued.

Airbus designs and manufactures commercial airplanes, helicopters, military aircraft, and space systems like satellites and launch services. The company builds these products by integrating advanced airframes, propulsion systems, and digital communication networks to support global travel, defense, and scientific exploration. Airbus distinguishes itself through its massive global manufacturing network and its active development of hydrogen-powered aircraft to eliminate carbon emissions. Its goal is to provide safe, connected aerospace solutions while leading the industry toward sustainable flight and environmental responsibility.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Blagnac, France

Founded

1970

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What believers are saying

  • Airbus raised H1 2026 revenue 12% to €33.2 billion and doubled net profit.
  • Airbus maintained 2026 guidance at about 870 deliveries and €7.5 billion EBIT.
  • Defence and Space EBIT jumped 84% in H1 2026, strengthening margins and diversification.

What critics are saying

  • Spanish unions struck Airbus plants in August 2026, exposing fragile labor relations and morale.
  • Boeing's challenge to Airbus's €3 billion EIB loan threatens R&D funding through 2030.
  • Pratt & Whitney engine shortages already cut deliveries; another supplier shock would crush 2026 guidance.

What makes Airbus unique

  • Airbus's 9,222-jet backlog gives it unmatched visibility into production through 2035.
  • Qantas chose Airbus A350-1000ULR for Project Sunrise, reinforcing long-range engineering leadership.
  • Airbus and MTU's hydrogen fuel-cell venture targets next-generation propulsion, not incremental tweaks.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Professional Development Budget

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

5%
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