Ärztekasse Genossenschaft develops software for healthcare professionals together with its partners and suppliers. As a Security Architect, you will contribute to the further development of products for medical practices, patient billing, and eHealth services while ensuring their security.

Our delivery organization is decentralized and complex, operating data centers with virtualized environments, including both Debian and Windows systems. We are looking for experienced Security Architects who can analyze the security of our infrastructure components, develop and implement improvements, and thereby contribute to the next generation of our products and eHealth services.

Security Solution Architect (m/w)

Pensum: 80-100%

Start: immediately or by appointment

Duration: unlimited

Location: Urdorf

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Security Architect to strengthen the security architecture of our IT landscape, products, infrastructure, and eHealth services.

In this role, you will design, assess, document, and continuously improve security solutions across a complex and decentralized environment involving data centers, cloud services, virtualized platforms, web applications, identity systems, and partner integrations.

Key Responsibilites

• Define and evolve the security architecture across applications, infrastructure (on premise and cloud), and network environments.
• Design and review security architectures by translating business requirements into secure technical solutions, applying security principles such as Zero Trust and Defense in Depth, and integrating capabilities including SASE, IAM, WAF, network security, authentication, and authorization.
• Analyze existing and new achitecture to identify security gaps, risks, and improvement areas.
• Create clear architecture documentation, security concepts, diagrams, and decision records.
• Support secure integration with partners, suppliers, and external systems.
• Advise development and infrastructure on security best practices.
• Ensure security requirements are considered from design through implementation and operation.
• Work closely with internal teams and external partners to build secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

Required Skills

• Several years of experience as a Security Architect
• Strong architecture background across infrastructure, applications, networks, and security.
• Experience with SASE, Zero Trust, secure remote access, and network security concepts.
• Good knowledge of WAF, reverse proxies, API protection, and web application security.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management, including Identity Providers, authentication, authorization, SSO, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, and role-based or policy-based access control.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand complex technical environments.
• Experience documenting architectures, security concepts, and technical decisions.
• Ability to translate business and security requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Experience with Spring boot and .Net is an advantage.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent in English; German is an advantage.
• Certifications such as NIST, CISSP, CISM, or CIS Controls knowledge are considered an advantage.

Additional Information

Ärztekasse offers you the opportunity to actively help shape the eHealth sector in a friendly and professional environment characterized by flat hierarchies and proactive colleagues, both internally and together with our partner companies. You will be able to contribute your expertise and ideas directly to our solutions.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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