Senior Security Architect

About The role

SoFi Cybersecurity Architecture team assists and partners with engineering and product and design organizations. Our mission is  to build secure products and services delivered to our members and customers. We deploy strong Product Security practices, compliance frameworks, and design patterns while collaborating with product owners, engineers, and executives to ensure new products and features meet the highest security standards and regulations. 

As a Senior Cloud Security Architect, you will be responsible for the end-to-end security architecture of our platforms, products, and services. You will work in conjunction with security, compliance, and risk teams to make decisions and help lead initiatives to ensure timely delivery of security solutions that support our business objectives. 

The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, balancing the right level of security with business objectives, and working to creatively solve complex Product Security related problems in an agile environment. 

What you’ll do:

• Be an Cybersecurity architect evangelist who can translate security concepts into language that is meaningful to our product teams and engineering. Integrate new and existing security tools, standards, and processes into the development life cycle.
• Advise on the secure design of product and application architecture; communicate security requirements with well defined user stories and initiatives and epics. 
• Perform security design reviews and threat modeling for infrastructure and application related projects.
• Experience in conducting security reviews and assessments of banking applications and platforms to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Experience in reviewing and securing APIs to ensure proper authentication, authorization, and data validation
• Partner with development teams to review new features and provide security specific feedback.
• Analyze and evaluate cloud security trends, vulnerabilities and provide ongoing feedback to product management about delivery of best practices.
• Develop Security test plans for new products. Design security solution blueprints that meet the system needs. Automate security checklists and implement them as "security as code" using cloud services and CI/CD components.
• Review new features / product offerings and perform threat modeling in a continuous delivery agile environment.
• Conducts business-level security architecture assessments to evaluate existing security program and cloud application architecture, identify weaknesses, and make recommendations.
• Work with our risk and compliance organization to provide input to security risk impact assessment. Contribute to security policy, standards, and guidelines related to Information Security.
• Work with engineering teams, to ensure that application security risks are effectively identified using market leading tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, etc) and appropriately addressed while maintaining a balance between security & usability.
• Architects, designs, prioritizes, coordinates, and communicates the security technologies necessary to ensure a highly secure yet usable computing environment.

What you’ll need:

• Good understanding of cloud services, AWS, SaaS security and Well Architected Framework security pillar
• Experience with the application of threat modeling or other risk identification techniques
• Experience conducting architecture reviews to find and evaluate application and infrastructure security risks
• Demonstrate deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of network and web related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)
• Identity and Access Management, Authentication and authorization protocols like OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML
• Web application security, Microservices and API design patterns
• Service Mesh/Istio, microsegmentation, and network security
• Cryptographic protocols and standards (Data encryption)
• Demonstrated knowledge on threat landscape, security threat and vulnerability management, and security monitoring and analytics.
• Ability to prioritize between and execute on multiple work streams
• Written and verbal skills for communicating security concepts and solutions
• Secure software development lifecycle / “Shift Left”

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university
• 8+ Experience in Infrastructure and product security architecture
• Experience with cloud native products and in-depth understanding of microservice topologies and implementations
• 8+ years of experience with cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Proven ability to work with compliance frameworks and requirements such as PCI, GLBA, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, etc.
• Ability to manage relationships with other business units, external vendors and stakeholders when IT security risks are present and system or process changes must be made to mitigate risk
• Familiarity with AWS and at-scale services
• Ability to work in a fast paced and Agile development environment
• Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment

Nice to have:

• CISSP, CISM, GSEC or AWS Certified Security Speciality
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
• Financial services experience