Senior Security Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Design secure architectures across cloud, applications, identity, and data flows.
  Establish and maintain reference architectures, secure patterns, and guardrails for engineering and IT teams.
• Evaluate new services, workloads, and changes for security impact and provide clear recommendations.
• Lead security architecture for AWS environments, including IAM design, networking, logging pipelines, and workload protections.
• Strengthen guardrails that automate enforcement of secure configurations across the environment.
• Review infrastructure and deployment patterns to ensure security is built in from the start.
• Partner with AppSec, Engineering, and Product to embed secure coding, threat modeling, and design reviews into the development lifecycle.
• Provide architectural guidance for new features, integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Support secure implementation of AI, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Work with SecOps to ensure detections, logging, and incident readiness align with architecture.
• Support GRC in mapping architecture and controls to frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer expectations.
• Drive consensus across technical teams and communicate complex security concepts in clear business language.

Required Experience and Skills

• Seven or more years in Security Engineering, Architecture, or Cloud Security roles.
• Strong experience with AWS, IAM design, network security, cloud guardrails, and automated controls.
• Deep understanding of identity, secrets management, logging pipelines, and detection patterns.
• Ability to create secure solutions that are scalable, simple, and aligned with business needs.
• Strong communication skills and comfort influencing cross functional engineering groups.
• Experience with compliance frameworks and secure design expectations for SaaS companies.

Preferred Experience

• AWS Security Specialty or similar.
• Experience in cloud environments or software companies.
• Familiarity with threat modeling, AI security, container security, and Kubernetes.

What Success Looks Like

• Architecture becomes cleaner, simpler, and easier for teams to follow.
• Cloud environments become more resilient through automated guardrails and strong identity foundations.
• Detections and SecOps workflows improve because architecture is intentional and aligned.
• Compliance and audit readiness becomes faster and less painful due to strong patterns and documentation.
• Engineering teams trust and adopt the architect s guidance as the standard for how secure systems are built.