Senior Vice President, Security Architect

$145,840 - $218,760/Yr

Citigroup - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Full-time - Senior

Fort Lauderdale, FL

10,001+ employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Security Architect is a senior-level professional within the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) at Citi, responsible for supporting Enterprise Security Architecture across the organization. This role involves acting as a trusted advisor to various teams, establishing security requirements, designing reference architectures, and mitigating risks to the company. The Security Architect plays a critical role in ensuring the security of Citi's applications and APIs, while also leading high-visibility initiatives and managing stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture vision for Application Security and Vulnerability Management
• Develop security architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving IT solutions including emerging technologies for processing data on-prem and in the cloud
• Evaluate, design and architect security systems to protect Citi's most critical applications and APIs
• Perform security architecture and risk assessment of internally developed and vendor IT systems and applications leveraging best practices including threat modelling
• Ensure that security design and controls are consistent with organization's security architecture principles
• Develop strategies and security controls partnering with IT architecture/development stakeholders to implement during early in system development life cycle
• Ensure that security architectures are resilient, reliable, and scalable
• Provide security recommendations including automated controls, security configurations and advise on strategies as well as compensating controls to manage risk to acceptable tolerance levels
• Perform root cause analysis, identify thematic security architecture improvements, and create security patterns as well as frameworks that can accelerate faster secure delivery of products to market
• Influence Global Information Security policies, standards, and program leveraging subject matter knowledge, as well as industry partnerships
• Establish relationships with cross-functional areas including Business, Technology, and Compliance stakeholders and serve as a security subject-matter expert
• Interface with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements
• Impact the technology function through contribution to technical direction and strategic decisions
• Use developed communication skills to negotiate and often at higher levels.

Requirements

• Experience developing Reference Security Architecture and Design Patterns to support proactive and automated controls
• Sound understanding of Information security domains: Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Identity access management, Cryptography, Data protection, Infrastructure Defense, Security Operations, etc.
• Experience with security frameworks and standards (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST 800-53)
• 10+ years as Security Architect or within a similar capacity
• Knowledge of software development processes (SLDC/Agile/Iterative/DevOps)
• Threat modelling using industry standard methodologies (e.g. STRIDE/DREAD/MITRE)
• Experience of security architecture/engineering with one or more IT systems such as Cloud (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Containerization and Virtualization technologies such as Kubernetes (OpenShift, AWS EKS, Google GKS)
• API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong and AWS API Gateway
• Enterprise Web and Mobile applications
• Authentication security patterns involving OpenID connect, OAuth, SAML, Kerberos, etc
• Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST/SCA, etc)
• Vulnerability Scanning & Management, Penetration Testing, Red Teaming

Nice-to-haves

• Software development experience is a plus
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence outcomes in a collaborative environment
• Strong communication skills interacting with senior technology and business management
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Management and prioritization skills
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly
• Methodical, attention to detail

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off packages including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays