
Principal Product Security Architect - Executive Director
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Cultivate security culture with your product technology and business colleagues. Products that have the right security culture will strive to prioritize sustainable controls and driving real risk reduction outcomes. Embed threat modelling, security design & architecture reviews into product and application teams so they adopt our control products and create products that are secure from the start.
- Know your product across its breadth and depth. Be fluent in your product's strategy and roadmap as well as its key investment programs. Identify unfamiliar technology components, capabilities, and business concepts and be self-motivated to learn all about them, applying critical thinking to identify hidden issues along the way.
- Be your product's security thought leader. Learn from your product and cybersecurity teams and share best practice in both directions. Be recognized in your product as the clear point of escalation and subject matter expert for IT Risk and Cyber domains.
- Act with urgency managing emerging issues. Proactively monitor Key Risk Indicators to ensure issues are identified, quantified, communicated, and managed in a timely manner, including recommendations for resolution, and identifying the root cause/key themes.
- Partner and influence across your product's supply chain. Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business colleagues on an on-going basis for business-as-usual audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities and project initiatives. Work closely with Third Party Oversight teams to ensure effective technology risk management of vendors engaged by technology partners, with a focus on Cloud computing / emerging technologies.
- Inspires, Empowers and Mentors Product Security Architects in this technical people leadership role
- Advises cross-functional teams on technology selections and decisions to achieve target state cybersecurity on improvements to current cybersecurity parameters
- Develops multi-year roadmaps aligned with business and architecture strategy and priorities
- Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert and drives thought leadership within the product line
- Contributes to the development of technical methods in cybersecurity in line with the latest product development methodologies
- Participates in the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
- Hands-on practical experience delivering enterprise level cybersecurity solutions and controls via Threat Modeling and Security Design & Architecture Reviews
- Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable, in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., public cloud (GCP & AWS), artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively with technical and non-technical senior leaders and executives
- Understanding of the business and knowledgeable of latest risk trends in the internal and external environments
- Demonstrated success in influencing peers inside and outside your department
- Technical people leadership experience within a product security team in the financial services/FinTech sector
- Demonstrated, hands-on technical expertise within Product Security including but not limited to:
- Deploying products using Cloud and containers technology (e.g. GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Securing APIs and micro-services
- Securing Software as a Service (SaaS) tools and managing their security baseline posture
- Software Supply Chain Security
- Proven experience of upskilling and learning modern technologies
- Technical people leadership experience within a product security team in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech Organizations (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital)