We are seeking a Security Architect with a strong development and solution architecture background to lead our architecture consulting team and design security solutions that enable business outcomes while maintaining robust security postures. This role reports to CISO.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Security Reviews and Theat Modelling

• Lead and manage a team of architecture consultants, providing threat-driven architecture security reviews and threat modelling services

• Drive development and adoption of AI enabled security reviews, threat modelling and secure code reviews

Build Security In / Shift Left

• Drive strategic security architecture decisions across multiple business units and technology domains

• Develop secure reference architectures and design patterns for modern application stacks and

Build Security In (BSI)

• Build security-by-design solutions that integrate seamlessly with development workflows

• Enhance security tooling and automation that integrates into CI/CD pipelines and drive adoption and metrics reporting

• Reignite Security Champions initiative to improve shift left approach to cybersecurity

Enterprise and Identity security architecture

• Design identity governance solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments

• Assess and Implement advanced IAM patterns including fine-grained authorization, privilege escalation controls, and just-in-time access

• Develop identity integration strategies for AI systems and automated decision-making platforms

• Engage with platform and DevOps engineering teams to build secure infrastructure and technology foundations: DevSecOps

• Propose initiatives to address security gaps or enhance the overall organizational security posture

• Build positive flywheel effect among stakeholders to enable security adoption and cultural transformation

Gen AI Security

• Design and integrate security frameworks for Gen AI deployment, monitoring, and governance within AI risk framework

• Create and maintain security blueprints for (Gen) AI deployments, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI guardrails

• Lead agentic AI security initiative with focus on authentication and authorization of AI agents

Requirements

Leadership Experience

• 3+ years of team or lateral leadership experience in technology architecture or security consulting teams

• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder security projects

• Experience with program management and strategic initiative delivery

Technical Background

• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience with modern programming languages preferred

• 3+ years of solution architecture experience designing distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native applications preferred

• Familiar with on-prem and cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), API, proxies and infrastructure-as-code; virtualization, containerization technologies and automation.

• Comprehensive knowledge of application security principles (OWASP, SANS, etc.)

• Experience with modern security tooling: SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management

• Hands-on experience with identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM)

• Knowledge of data protection technologies (encryption, tokenization, DLP)

• Experience with AI/ML security challenges and solutions including Large Language Model (LLM), Model Context Protocols (MCP), Agentic AI and AI governance frameworks

Soft Skills & Approach

• Data-driven, Solution-oriented mindset with ability to balance security and business needs

• Strong communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with agile development methodologies and DevSecOps practices

• Track record of building consensus around security solutions across diverse teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

• Security and/or technical certifications (eg. SANS, AWS, Azure)