Head of Cybersecurity Engineering & Architecture
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Job Summary
Role Overview
The Head of Cybersecurity Engineering & Architecture is responsible for the technical security of the organizations cloud and technology environment. This role provides hands-on security leadership across cloud infrastructure identity security tooling vulnerability management architecture and technical controls. The successful candidate must be able to independently assess technical risk develop practical solutions and work directly with technology teams to implement and validate those solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own cybersecurity engineering and architecture across the cloud environment.
- Own the enterprise vulnerability management program including scanning risk-based prioritization remediation SLAs exception management remediation tracking and reporting.
- Establish security architecture standards and technical security requirements.
- Assess cloud infrastructure and identify security weaknesses and control gaps.
- Oversee identity privileged access and authentication security.
- Manage security tooling and technical security controls.
- Evaluate logging encryption endpoint and infrastructure security.
- Coordinate penetration testing and technical remediation.
- Conduct security architecture reviews for major technology initiatives.
- Evaluate security monitoring and detection capabilities.
- Support technical incident response and security investigations.
- Identify opportunities to automate security controls remediation and repetitive processes.
- Partner closely with Technology and Engineering teams to drive measurable risk reduction.
Requirements
- 8 years of cybersecurity experience with increasing technical responsibility.
- Strong experience with cloud security and modern technology environments.
- Deep understanding of vulnerability management and risk-based prioritization.
- Experience with IAM/PAM endpoint security logging encryption and security architecture.
- Experience with security tooling vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
- Ability to distinguish material security risk from lower-value technical findings.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Financial services fintech or regulated-industry experience preferred.
- Remote- US Shift
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Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into clean efficient and well-documented code using programming languages such as Java C#.Net or JavaScript. Develop and integrate third-party services and APIs while creating APIs for internal/external use. Gain comprehensive product knowledge by learning and understanding the existing platform. Understand client implementation requirements and develop automation scripting or code as needed. Test debug and optimize code to ensure performance reliability and functionality. Troubleshoot issues ensuring seamless onboarding of new clients to our platform. Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner. Requirements Strong technical skills and understanding. Proven experience in one of the programming languages (Java C#.Net JavaScript or others). Strong knowledge of XML and SQL with the ability to handle database queries and data exchange formats. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail. Ability to gain deep product knowledge and apply it to client implementations. Ability to work independently or collaboratively in a team environment. Experience with software testing debugging and performance optimisation. Excellent communication and client-facing skills with a customer-focused mindset. Preferred: Familiarity with the payments or banking domain is good to have. Experience in client implementation configuration and setup Willingness to work in the second shift: 2:00 PM 11:00 PM IST.
