Vice President | Enterprise Security Architecture

Raymond James • Saint Petersburg, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President of Enterprise Security Architecture owns the security architecture of Raymond James’ technology estate, including reference architectures, standards, and patterns that enable teams to build securely. The role defines the target state and roadmap for areas including zero trust, identity, data protection, and cloud security, and embeds security into modernization programs from their earliest design decisions.

This is an AI-forward leadership role requiring hands-on daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or similar tools, as well as ownership of architecture for safe adoption of AI agents across the firm. This includes agent and workload identity, least-privilege tool access, prompt-injection and data-exfiltration controls, and auditable evidence.

The position sits in Enterprise Architecture and leads the Lead Security Architect. It partners closely with Information Security, which retains ownership of security operations, risk acceptance, and policy. The role owns architecture, standards, and reusable patterns, and works with engineers, executives, the CISO, auditors, and regulators. The position follows a hybrid schedule with three in-office days per week, including a Monday or Friday, at the St. Petersburg, Florida Corporate Office. It is not eligible for work visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Travel is less than 25%.

Requirements

• More than 15 years of general experience, with deep, hands-on mastery of security architecture.
• 10 to 15 years of manager experience.
• Proven experience at a large technology company or hyperscaler, or a major financial institution such as a Wall Street bank, exchange, broker-dealer, or asset manager, where architecture was tested by adversaries, regulators, and scale.
• Daily use of Claude Code or similar agentic tools, with evidence of securing AI or agentic systems in production.
• Builder credibility, including the ability to read code, write policy-as-code, and sketch reference implementations.
• Completed bachelor's education in Computer and Information Science; high school completion is also listed as required.
• Travel of less than 25%.

Nice To Haves

• CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise security target architecture and roadmap, covering zero trust; workforce, client, and non-human identity and access management; network segmentation; encryption and key management; and data protection.
• Own security architecture standards for AI and agentic systems, including agent and workload identity, scoped tool permissions, human approval gates, prompt-injection and data-exfiltration controls, model and data provenance, and auditable logging.
• Use AI coding agents and agentic tooling hands-on for security architecture work, including threat modeling, policy-as-code, control mapping, architecture review, and reference implementations; establish safe usage patterns for architecture and engineering teams.
• Build security into delivery through design-time threat modeling, secure-by-default golden paths, and pipeline controls, including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, SBOMs, supply-chain provenance, and policy-as-code.
• Set cloud security architecture for AWS and Azure with Enterprise & Cloud Architecture, including landing-zone guardrails, identity federation, network and data-perimeter controls, and continuous compliance.
• Lead security architecture reviews for major initiatives and third-party, SaaS, and vendor platforms; use published criteria, record decisions, and track time-bound exceptions through closure.
• Translate regulatory and examination expectations, including SEC, FINRA, GLBA, NIST CSF, and NIST AI RMF, into architecture standards and reusable controls, and provide architecture evidence for audits and examinations.
• Measure and report on architecture practice outcomes, including pattern adoption, exception aging, and the share of findings caught at design time rather than in production.
• Lead and develop the Lead Security Architect and grow a security architecture community of practice across the technology organization.
• Collaborate with senior executives on security strategy, investment cases, and executive-level communications and presentations.
• Maintain a strong external view of the threat landscape and emerging AI-security research and frameworks, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and MITRE ATLAS.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Disability benefits
• Retirement savings
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick leave
• Parental leave
• Additional compensation may include cash or equity, discretionary bonuses, or commissions

What This Job Offers

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