Principal Cybersecurity Architect - Database Security | Product Security Lead

Principal Cybersecurity Architect - Database Security | Product Security Lead

Take your engineering expertise to new heights by joining a team of exceptionally talented professionals and solidify your place among top performers in the industry.

As a Principal Cybersecurity Architect and Product Security Lead (PSL) in the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) team for the database product line, you will work proactively with your technology and business colleagues to identify and quantify security issues within their products and empower them to take decisive risk decisions at speed and scale. You are a security expert with a strong mix of database technology and communication skills and are passionate about enabling safe and secure innovation to make database products secure. You will work with some of the best and brightest cybersecurity and technology engineers to solve complex problems which will both challenge you and help you develop your skills in one of the most innovative and respected companies in the world.

As a Principal Cybersecurity Architect, you provide expertise to enhance and develop architecture platforms based on modern cloud-based technologies as well as support the adoption of strategic global solutions. Leverage your advanced architecture capabilities to identify, communicate, and mitigate risk, and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

Job responsibilities

• Cultivate security culture. Products that have the right security culture will strive to prioritize sustainable controls and driving real risk reduction outcomes.
• Embed threat modeling, security architecture, secure code review into product and application teams to ensure products are created secure from the start.
• Know database products across their breadth and depth. Be fluent in your product’s strategy and roadmap as well as its key investment programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business colleagues on an ongoing basis for business-as-usual audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities and project initiatives.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Experience of operating in a regulated organization with a 3rd LoD (Line of defense) model.
• Detailed, technical understanding of Public Cloud computing (GCP/AWS). Especially how Public Cloud services are hardened, and controls are applied to secure data, ensure resiliency/availability as well as prevent unauthorized access.
• Proficient in database encryption techniques, both at rest and in transit, to protect sensitive data.
• Proficient in database access control mechanisms, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and fine-grained access control (FGAC) mechanisms in DB systems.
• Proficient in database auditing and monitoring solutions to detect and respond to potential security breaches.
• Proficient in database vulnerability assessment and penetration testing methodologies to identify and remediate security weaknesses.
• Experience with secure database architecture design, including tenant isolation, and database hardening techniques.
• Proficient in database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data availability and resilience against attacks or failures.
• Experience with Integration of database security with identity and access management (IAM) systems, such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and newer technologies like OAuth and OpenID.
• Familiarity with securing various database management systems (DBMS), such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Neo4J, TigerGraph.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledgeable in industry-specific database security standards and regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.
• Ability to collaborate on, and/or lead, ad hoc teams for control architecture and design.
• Experience translating firm wide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Solutions Architects.
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital) preferred but not required.