Senior Director - Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Architecture

Acrisure•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Acrisure is a global fintech leader that empowers businesses and individuals with customized solutions across insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, and mortgage services. With a history of rapid growth, Acrisure employs over 19,000 colleagues in more than 20 countries. This role is for a Director of Engineering & Architecture within the cybersecurity organization, responsible for leading teams and platforms focused on identity and access security, cloud security, network and infrastructure protection, and enterprise security architecture. The position requires a senior operating leader to own the delivery, technical direction, and operating model for cybersecurity engineering and architecture, ensuring security is integrated, scalable, and aligned with business growth and integration strategies. The ideal candidate is a seasoned operator comfortable with strategy, delivery, and people leadership in a fast-growing, acquisitive environment.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required
CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering and architecture, including cloud, identity, and infrastructure security.
5+ years of experience leading and developing senior technical teams.
Demonstrated experience operating in complex, high-growth, or M&A-heavy environments.
Strong background in security architecture, access management, cloud security, and enterprise-scale engineering.
Proven ability to communicate with senior technical and non-technical leaders and influence outcomes across teams.

Nice To Haves

architecture or cloud security certification strongly preferred
advanced degree a plus

Responsibilities

Define the strategy and lifecycle for core cybersecurity platforms supporting identity, cloud security, network protection, and architectural controls.
Own cybersecurity platform and tooling decisions, including vendor selection, rationalization, and lifecycle management.
Establish clear structure and accountability across engineering and architecture teams, ensuring work is focused on the highest-risk and highest-impact outcomes.
Build a culture of ownership, execution discipline, and strong partnership with Technology teams.
Own cloud security architecture and engineering practices across Acrisure’s cloud platforms and shared services.
Define and maintain cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures.
Partner with cloud and infrastructure teams to embed security into platforms and delivery workflows.
Own enterprise identity and access security, including SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle, federation, access governance, and privileged access.
Drive modernization of identity capabilities to support strong identity assurance and a Zero Trust–aligned access model.
Ensure identity controls scale across organic growth and acquisitions.
Establish and operate a pragmatic security architecture review process that supports delivery while protecting the firm.
Oversee security design reviews for new systems, major changes, and integrations.
Publish and maintain reusable security patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
Partner with application and platform engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
Oversee engineering ownership for network and infrastructure security controls, including segmentation, exposure management, and secure connectivity.
Partner closely with Network Operations, Infrastructure, and IT Integrations teams to maintain a consistent and secure enterprise architecture.
Define and maintain network security standards for acquired entities.
Support Acrisure’s M&A strategy by ensuring cybersecurity engineering and architecture requirements are clear, repeatable, and executable.
Partner with IT Integrations to identify and address identity, network, and architectural risks during and after acquisitions.
Drive consistency and uplift toward enterprise security standards without slowing integration velocity.
Define and maintain meaningful engineering and architecture KPIs that reflect control effectiveness, risk reduction, and delivery performance.
Communicate technical risks and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership, translating complexity into actionable decisions.
Serve as a steady, credible advisor during incidents, escalations, and strategic initiatives.
Track architectural exceptions and platform adoption to ensure security controls are improving engineering velocity rather than creating friction.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of senior engineers and architects.
Set a high standard for clarity, quality, and follow-through.
Actively mentor future leaders and ensure succession and depth across critical security domains.