Security Architect

Empower • Overland Park, KS

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them. Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT. The Security Architect will drive security innovation and play a key role in defining, maintaining, evolving, and advocating for the organization’s security posture. This role will partner with a team of architects and cross-functional stakeholders to create secure design patterns, perform security assessments, and review system designs using a risk-based, threat-modeling approach.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8–10 years of experience in information security and/or IT risk management.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• Extensive experience designing and building secure cloud-native solutions, especially in AWS.
• Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders to create accurate threat models for new and existing systems and reduce security risk.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code principles and experience reviewing infrastructure configurations and changes in this format (for example, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Strong technical foundations in modern application and microservice architectures and related technologies (for example, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, RESTful and gRPC APIs).
• Understanding of CI/CD and secure development processes and tools (for example, Jenkins, Git).
• Strong foundation in the cybersecurity landscape, especially identity and access management, network access control, and secure configuration management.
• Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Practitioner, CCSP, Certified Secure Software Engineer, SANS/GIAC, or CISSP.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Familiarity with scrum project management tools (for example, Jira).
• Experience working in Financial Services or FinTech.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology teams to define security designs that meet security requirements and enable business objectives.
• Create, maintain, and document security architectures and design patterns for use by technology teams.
• Develop relationships, repeatable processes, and resources to establish security champions across the company.
• Perform threat modeling as needed to substantiate recommendations and designs.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of security policies, standards, and reference materials.
• Review and contribute to infrastructure-as-code representations of architecture changes and designs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level