Overview
Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Engineering / Architecture. Lead and elevate the enterprise security program with a strong focus on network and endpoint security. This role is primarily people leadership, guiding a team of six senior engineers and architects to drive innovation, alignment, and best practices across the organization. The role will also include some hands-on engineering work, providing deep technical expertise during critical escalations. Define and execute the security architecture and technical vision for both cloud and on-premises environments, delivering scalable, modern security solutions that strengthen the company's overall security posture.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of six senior cybersecurity engineers and architects, providing strategic direction, mentorship, and technical guidance to drive performance, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Define and execute the enterprise security architecture strategy across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring robust network and endpoint security controls.
- Serve as the final escalation point for complex or high-severity security incidents.
- Develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology, and threat drivers.
- Collaborate with the governance and sourcing team to develop security strategy and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices.
- Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (models, patterns, templates, and standards) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.
- Partner with enterprise security & governance teams to assess and reduce cloud security risks.
- Provide clear written and verbal consulting to projects about security architecture and risk management.
- Champion the implementation of industry leading security standards and best practices across the enterprise.
- Provide advice, analysis, and recommendations on security products in the security space.
- Develop standards and practices for data encryption and tokenization within the organization based on the organization's data classification criteria.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and other security reviews of systems, and prioritize remediation based on the risk profile of the assets.
- Coordinate with DevOps teams to advocate secure coding practices and escalate concerns related to poor coding practices.
- Participate in security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, especially those with which the organization shares confidential, restricted, regulated or other protected data.
- Support the testing and validation of internal security controls.
- Coordinate with operational and facility-management teams to assess the security of operational technology.
- Work with architecture office to establish multi-cloud cybersecurity architecture with a focus on proactive threat detection, security control enforcement and incident response.
- Interface with enterprise and domain architects to develop secure solutions.
- Collaborate with SOC teams to define and enforce security standards.
Qualifications
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity3+ years as a skilled people leader overseeing a team of security professionals across engineering and architectureExpertise in Network Security and Endpoint securityExperience working across various EDRs, firewalls, etc. with hands-on implementations, deployments, and enhancementsSkilled in talent development, mentorship, and empathetic performance managementWillingness to innovate and take calculated risks to enable teams to explore new techniques for impactful changeIn-depth understanding of cloud cybersecurity standards, frameworks and best practicesExperience in identifying gaps in security architectureAbility to communicate complex technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable mannerExperience with cloud service providers such as AWS or Azure across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models and various environments (Public, Private, Hybrid)Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or a related disciplineHigh preference for candidates who hold cybersecurity related certificationsJob Details
Job Title : Sr Manager, Security Engineering & ArchitectureType : Direct-HireLocation : Candidate must work 5 days onsite per week in one of the following offices : Irving, TX; Miami, FL; or Bentonville, ARBase pay range : $210,000.00 / yr - $225,000.00 / yrAdditional compensation types : Annual Bonus and RSUsNotes
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