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Fidelity Bank · 1 month ago

Director Architecture

Merrimack, NH

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$126K/yr - $255K/yr

Fidelity Bank is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Application Security Architect to drive strategic security initiatives across their technology landscape. The role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to design secure solutions, while leading efforts to innovate security architecture solutions and strategies.

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with product teams to understand security requirements and deliver effective solutions

Design and implementation of robust, scalable application security architecture solutions that support the business

Continuously evaluate security architecture trends and the emerging threat landscape and integrate new technologies and tools to enhance security capabilities

Conduct hands-on POCs and provide proven migration paths for product teams to advance our roadmap

Engage with product and engineering leads and senior management on product and delivery requirements and positively influence roadmaps

Drive adoption of enterprise standards and best practices, and promote changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary

Develop and produce high quality documentation for strategic security architectures, that are aligned with overall business strategy

Mentor application delivery teams regarding security architecture and secure development best practices

Qualification

Application Security ArchitectIdentityAccess ManagementAWSSecure Application DevelopmentJavaSpringBootNodeAPI DevelopmentAPI ConsumptionOrganizational SavvyPassion for Technology TrendsInterpersonal SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Deep understanding of application security frameworks, disciplines and practices, experience with secure application development and application security risk mitigation techniques

Deep technical understanding of and experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, Identity and Access Management, cryptography, key management, OIDC, OAuth, SAML, Azure AD, OPA

Experience architecting and implementing solutions for identity management including single sign-on and federated identity management, authorization and identity provisioning

Depth of knowledge in architecture and an ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions. Experience in a wide array of architecture patterns including architecting highly performant systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, data architecture and security architectures

Deep experience in architecting, designing & building highly scalable, low-latency applications

Passion for staying current on technology trends to shift direction and get results

Demonstrated desire and hands-on skills to turn concept and theory into pragmatic implementations by performing end-to-end hands-on proofs of concept, providing concrete solutions and clear migration plans to enable adoption

Organizational savvy and mature, with ability to work effectively across different organizational units and business groups

Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing strategies, aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing technology partners to adopt and implement accordingly

Experience addressing unique security considerations of cloud computing, especially that of AWS

Experience working with security vendors

Experience guiding and coaching engineering teams regarding security best practices and following through with oversight on implementation

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Passion and curiosity to work with others to foster ideas and produce creative solutions to intricate problems while making smart choices balancing design and delivery

Experience of developing applications with Java, SpringBoot, Node, and experience working with API's (both API Development & API Consumption)

Experience in designing, developing, and deploying applications on AWS. Practical knowledge of a broad range of AWS services, including compute, containers, databases, analytics, and security

Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices